Southwest Journal March 9–22 2017

Neighborhood Spotlight.

LOVING LIFE IN LYNNHURST

Spring Poetry Project

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I wish I wish I wish I knew, In which direction my glasses flew.

Perhaps they’re hiding with my keys, The ones I lost in ’93.

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CLOUD MAN VILLAGE The Park Board plans to commemorate the Dakota village near Lake Calhoun with public art

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

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here is a story behind Cloud Man’s decision to plant a permanent village in 1829 next to Bde Maka Ska, or Lake Calhoun.

As bison became scarce, Cloud Man —

Chief Mahpiya Wicasta — traveled on farther flung hunting trips to find food. He became caught in a blizzard near the Missouri River, and he buried himself under the snow for three days and two nights to keep warm.

While he waited out the storm, he made a pact with God, said Kate Beane, a descendant of Cloud Man. “He would not be afraid to try something SEE CLOUD MAN VILLAGE / PAGE A17

Restaurant-backed campaign enters minimum wage debate

5 Michael Garcia visits a plaque commemorating Dakota history at Bde Maka Ska, or Lake Calhoun.

Photo by Michelle Bruch

Civil rights activist Nekima Levy-Pounds speaks during a forum at Minneapolis Public Schools’ first-ever Black Teen Summit.

Photo by Nate Gotlieb

Pathway to $15 advocates a $15 minimum wage with exceptions for tipped workers

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Dozens of bar and restaurant owners are lining up behind a campaign to phase-in a citywide minimum wage of $15 an hour while making an exception for workers who earn tips.

Supporters of the Pathway to $15 campaign — who between them own more than 100 Minneapolis bars and restaurants — back a proposal that would treat most bartenders and servers who work in the front of the house differently than the cooks and dishwashers in the kitchen.

For back-of-the-house staff, the minimum wage would rise steadily to $15 an hour over a period of three to seven years. Meanwhile, their tipped co-workers would see gratuities factored into the wage calculation; bartenders and servers could be paid just $9.50 an hour, as long as their combined earnings from wages and tips totaled at least $15 an hour over the course of a shift. If not, their employers would have to make up the difference.

That’s what’s known alternately as a “tip credit” or “tip penalty.” Mayor Betsy Hodges chose the latter term SEE MINIMUM WAGE / PAGE A2

THE PROPOSAL Minimum wage increases to $15 Large employers have until 2020 Small employers have until 2024 Locally owned franchises can count as small employers Bartenders and servers could be paid as low as $9.50 if their total, with tip, reaches $15 Minimum wage would be $8.50 for those under 18

Summit inspires black students to lead Event featured discussion around black leaders past, present and future

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

The students at the Feb. 22 Black Teen Summit were chatting and goofing around, when civil rights activist Nekima Levy-Pounds stood up.

Levy-Pounds, a former St. Thomas law professor and current Minneapolis mayoral candidate, asked her fellow members of the

lunch-hour panel to listen. I hear a lot of chitchat and disrespect, she said to them.

Would she have to put on her “hat as a black mama” and let the students know they could do better?

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recently when she described her reasons for opposing the two-tiered system, which she said would unfairly penalize women, who make up the majority of tipped workers.

Supporters of Pathway to $15 counter that the proposal simply recognizes the “total taxable income” of tipped workers. The alternative, they say, is layoffs, higher menu prices and the loss of Minneapolis businesses that close or move.

Under the Pathway to $15 proposal, the minimum wage increases to $15 by 2020 for large employers, those with more than 250 employees. Small employers have until 2024.

Locally owned franchises of larger national chains, like McDonald’s, or regional chains, like Davanni’s, could count as “small employers” if they have fewer than 250 employees based in Minneapolis.

The proposal also creates a separate wage tier for youth workers. Minimum wage would be $8.50 for those under 18.

It’s a plan they’re taking to the City Council, which is expected to vote on a municipal minimum wage in the late spring or early summer. The details of a proposed ordinance are expected to be made public in May.

In my experience, somebody is always coming after our tips, somebody always wants our tips, somebody always thinks we’re making too much money.

— Sarah Norton, server

Targeting tips David Benowitz, CEO of Craft and Crew, a restaurant group that includes Stanley’s Northeast Bar Room and The Howe, estimated that extending the $15 minimum wage to his tipped employees would increase expenses at the two Minneapolis restaurants “well over $200,000 per year, per store.”

“That’s a very scary number for us because we operate on very thin margins,” Benowitz said. “... That’s well over our profit for the year, so we would have no choice but to change the business model for how we do business.”

He said those changes would likely include raising menu prices by 15–20 percent. That’s significantly higher than the less than 5-percent increase predicted by the economists who simulated the effects of a minimum wage hike in a City Council-commissioned study.

Without a carve-out for tipped employees, Benowitz’s Minneapolis restaurants would likely adopt a no-tipping policy; he said it would be easier for customers to swallow the higher prices if they didn’t have to tip on top of the check. Benowitz said his servers currently average about $24 an hour after tips, and the prospect of maxing-out at $15 means many of them support Pathway to $15.

That’s why veteran server Sarah Norton supports Pathway to $15. Norton, a mother of three who lives in St. Paul, currently totals roughly 40 hours a week between shifts at Jefe in Marcy-Holmes and Jun in the North Loop — and takes in additional income teaching voice lessons. Norton earns $9.50 an hour at her serving jobs, but she said her take-home pay averages closer to $30 an hour with tips.

Norton, who runs the Facebook group Service Industry Staff for Change, said she was offended by Hodges’ comments on tipping. Echoing Saru Jayaraman of the Restaurant Opportunities Center, who in February spoke in Minneapolis, Hodges wrote in a blog post that “tipping as an institution is rooted in the history of slavery”

and it originated as “a substitute for a decent, fair, and equitable wage.”

“She’s coming after the tips,” Norton said.

“In my experience, somebody is always coming after our tips, somebody always wants our tips, somebody always thinks we’re making too much money.”

‘One fair wage’ Other servers see $15 an hour as a pathway to financial stability, including Destiny Davis, a 24-year-old with five years of restaurant experience. Davis was most recently employed 20–30 hours a week as a server and bartender at the Oak Grill inside the downtown Macy’s, where her take-home earnings varied significantly from one shift to another.

Davis earned $10 an hour behind the bar, but could take home $200 in tips on a good night. Another night, she might struggle to afford bus fare home after a slow shift waiting tables.

“There have been days when I’ve clocked in for four hours and I haven’t made a dime” in

tips, she said. “… Then, two weeks later, my check is for $65.”

Davis, who is African-American, said she has experienced overt racism on the job, including customers who ask to be waited on by a white server. It’s not just the whims of her customers that create uncertainty in her earnings; a sunny day would draw customers away to restaurants with patios, and a holiday would clear workers out of downtown.

Davis, who lives in South Minneapolis with her partner, said she was living close to the edge financially. If she wasn’t in a relationship, she’d consider moving back in with her mom.

“If I’m making $15 an hour plus tips, I can take a little breather,” she said.

Advocates on both sides of the tipping debate agree that phasing-in higher wages would blunt the impact on business owners. A phase-in was included in the charter amendment 15 Now Minnesota attempted to put on the ballot last November.

15 Now Minnesota lost their fight in the courts, and afterward advocates for what is often described as “one fair wage” shifted their focus to influencing the shape of the municipal wage ordinance now under development.

Ginger Jentzen, a longtime server who recently stepped down as executive director of 15 Now Minnesota to run for City Council in Ward 3, said creating an exception for tipped workers would require restaurants to track the fluctuating pay of individual serving staff from shift-to shift.

“It puts it on the individual worker to negotiate with management constantly about what their wages were for the shift,” Jentzen said, adding the system “opens the door to intimidation and wage theft.”

She described the threat of a no-tipping policy as “a scaremongering tactic that comes from the National Restaurant Association,” an industry group that advocates for tip credit policies. Jentzen found the idea that restaurants might flee Minneapolis — and their customer base —similarly far-fetched.

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Lotus Restaurant The family-owned Lotus Restaurant is returning to Uptown this spring, giving the loyal following for their Loring Park location room to stretch out at the former GĀME Sports Bar. “We’re always at max capacity. We hope to alleviate some stress over there,” said family member Yoom Nguyen.

Regulars in a recent lunch crowd said they had been coming for 20-plus years, 30-plus years or simply a “long time.” The restaurant designer who originally painted the logo on the wall paid a visit. A patron at the register commented that staff always remember her name. A customer from Denver said he visits just enough that staff recognize him.

“It’s as good of food as you’ll ever find,” said customer Steven Grimshaw.

“It’s nice to know the people who are cooking your food. It’s like cooking at home, but one step better,” said Benita Guy. “That’s going to be the hard part, to bring that feeling over here,” Nguyen said. “It’s kind of scary, but we know we can do it.”

They’re converting GĀME’s former penalty box at 2841 Hennepin Ave. into a fresh juice stand with bubble tea. They plan to brighten up the exterior and add Lotus’s trademark neon.

They’re exploring new ideas for the large parking lot, perhaps providing space for the farmers market vendors that supply Lotus with produce.

Lotus’s former Uptown location closed in 2012 during renovation of Calhoun Square.

The owners intended to return, Nguyen said, but the rent increased six-fold under new mall ownership. He said the only way to make the business viable would be to add liquor, and they didn’t want to go that direction.

The family still isn’t interested in the bar scene.

“There is enough of that in Uptown already,” Nguyen said.

Instead they plan to focus on food: stacked banh mi available to-go, rice bowls, stir fry and salad bowls.

“Everything is made from scratch, and you taste that in every bite,” Nguyen said.

One new addition to the late-night menu is the “phorito,” modeled after pho soup

and packed with a choice of protein, lime, cilantro, basil, bean sprouts, hoisin sauce and broth for dipping.

“My mom makes it every morning. She’s the only one who touches the broth,” Nguyen said.

Tri and Le Tran opened the original Lotus restaurant in Uptown in 1983, followed by the Loring Park restaurant in 1984. They staffed the restaurant with new immigrants and refugees, including the Nguyen family. Trung Nguyen and Van Vo left Vietnam in 1979, traveling on a boat of refugees to the Philippines, where they lived for two years before moving to Minnesota with 2-year-old Yoom.

Vo got her start at Lotus cleaning windows and scrubbing floors. She moved on to make egg rolls in the kitchen, and eventually she and Trung took over ownership of the Loring Park location in 1987.

“I was raised here,” Yoom said. “My brothers were born in a wok, pretty much.”

He remembers sleeping on bags of rice under the counter. The wait staff were his babysitters.

The business is still a family affair, and the owners’ nine grandkids work at the restaurant during the summer.

“Whenever kids are getting off track, we bring them here,” Yoom said.

Yoom said his parents share their home and even fund rehab for employees when needed.

If someone steals from the business, he said, their first question is why?

“They are very special people,” he said.

One of their older customers who eats at Lotus every day didn’t show up for a week. The staff became concerned and called the police.

“He walked in and the whole restaurant stopped,” Yoom said. “He went on vacation without letting us know.”

Yoom said Lotus brings in a diverse crowd, and it’s common to see someone without a home sitting next to a lawyer, who is sitting next to a professional athlete. Celebrities like Dave Chappelle stop when in town.

“We’re a perfect example of Minneapolis and how it’s a big melting pot,” he said. “…

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50TH & DREW

Halo Cryotherapy Clients at Halo Cryotherapy step inside a chamber that fills with dry nitrogen vapor at minus 230 degrees. Full-body sessions up to three minutes are designed to increase blood flow and reduce pain.

“It has a huge anti-inflammatory capability,” Manager Jack Younggren said. “It’s not cooling your core temperature. It’s only affecting the surface skin temperature.”

The Timberwolves have their own cryosauna, owner Dave Remick said, and celebrities including LeBron James and Tony Robbins have installed them in their homes.

“All the professional sports teams have guys who come here,” he said.

Remick said he discovered cryotherapy about three years ago as a client. He previously operated The Locker at Calhoun Village before opening a cryotherapy-only business last month at the former Papa John’s at 3615 W. 50th St. “It really did help with overcoming soreness,” he said. “Cold has been around a long time as a treatment. This is the most efficient and effective way to get the benefits of cold.”

The alternative would be a polar plunge experience, but he said cryotherapy is more invigorating than it is unpleasant.

Younggren said the treatment releases

endorphins comparable to a runner’s high, and can burn 500-800 calories.

“The feeling is you just had the best workout of your life … without any of the pain,” he said. “If you come in with pain, you’re leaving without it or in less pain.”

Localized sessions can target areas with acute pain, he said.

“It’s like an ice pack on steroids,” Younggren said.

The business also offers facial treatments that aim to boost collagen production, reduce pore size and tighten the skin.

Staff at Halo said cryotherapy was developed in Japan to treat rheumatoid arthritis in the 1970s, and it evolved in Europe to treat everything from chronic pain to depression and anxiety.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not tested or approved cryotherapy products and equipment, and the FDA recommends checking with a doctor prior to starting treatment.

Cryotherapy staff remain in the room and track each client’s skin temperature.

Ten-minute appointments can be scheduled on the phone, and the cost ranges from $30 for localized sessions to $50 for full-body sessions.

For more information, visit halocryo.com.

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Kitchen Space Commercial kitchen spaces are under construction in the former Uncommon Gardens building at 5750 Lyndale Ave. S. Owner Erin Bailey previously worked as a chef in Chicago, where she ran the catering and gourmet to-go business La Pomme de Pin (named for a century-old Paris brasserie that translates “apple of the pine,” or pinecone). Bailey also sold her own line of compound butters in flavors like scampi, herb and honey walnut.

Upon returning to the Lynnhurst neighborhood where she grew up, Bailey started thinking about re-launching the butters locally.

“I’m used to having my own kitchen,” she said.

Bailey learned that food trucks have placed a premium on commercial kitchen spaces, forcing some to work in the middle of the night. As businesses grow, she said, it can become inconvenient

to schedule time on a calendar and haul materials in and out of a busy commercial kitchen.

“It became evident to me that there was a need,” she said.

She’s building four dedicated work stations available for long-term lease — one of which will go to a baby food maker — with space to package, label and cook products. Office space is available upstairs, and outdoor storage space is available for farmers market vendors who want to clear tables and chairs out of their garages.

Bailey is planning an edible garden with raised beds, and she hopes to become a CSA (community supported agriculture) pickup destination.

Kitchen Space is slated to open May 1.

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Ted Abramson, senior vice president of CBRE, said he’s seeing local and national interest in the property. CBRE will ask developers to submit offers in about four to six weeks.

Abramson said the property stands out in Uptown for its size and proximity to the lake.

“This is definitely one of the largest contiguous parcels owned by one entity,” he said.

CPM Development co-founder Dan Oberpriller said he’d consider an offer if the numbers work. Developer Stuart Ackerberg said he’s

interested to learn more about the site as well.

The block’s zoning ranges from C3A on the north end, which is a community activity center district that allows four stories or 56 feet as of right; down to R2B, a two family district that allows two-and-a-half stories or 35 feet in height.

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“It’s a reflection of the neighborhood and the value that South Minneapolis puts on relationships,” said co-founder Kori Hennessy.

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The restaurant would have seating capacity of 153 people inside and 28 outside.

Spaeth said the venue would not operate as a bar. The new business is seeking city approval for business licenses including a liquor license.

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Independent enters Ward 10 race Scott Fine said no party represents his values as well as the Democrats, and the ECCO resident has been active on and off in the state’s DFL party for years. But Fine plans to run for the Ward 10 City Council seat as an independent.

A musician who works as a web developer, Fine said he is out to “challenge the status quo” — even if that means making an end-run around the DFL endorsement process.

“Questions of whether or not that endorsement would be winnable — it would be disingenuous to say those questions didn’t arise,” he acknowledged in a recent interview.

That means his campaign against first-term incumbent Lisa Bender has no chance of being derailed at the party’s spring convention and could last into the fall. Bender, a leader on biking and transportation policy who also sponsored the neighborhood’s successful bid to protect 55 homes in a new historic district, said she intends to be the first council member to win re-election in the ward since the 1990s.

Asked why he felt the ward needed a change, Fine said there was an “alarming need” for more outreach and participation. Describing a “broad-ranging sentiment from a lot of different constituencies,” he said many in Ward 10 felt left out of the process.

“Above all we stand for unity and civil democracy, for decision by consensus and consent rather than successful political maneuvering,” he said.

At the top of his priority list is expanding

access to affordable and workforce housing in the ward. He said solutions could include taxing “luxury development” at a higher rate or having the city take a greater role in guiding development.

“I think we need to start imagining ourselves what we want to build and putting that forward in public-private partnerships and getting those things built,” he said.

On his campaign’s Facebook page, Fine writes that “luxury-priced developer driven density” is changing the character of Ward 10 neighborhoods “with little regard for the clear opposition of local residents (and) small businesses.”

Bender said she feels good about her track record on development, which has been a hotbutton topic in the ward. She said she has been working to guide “appropriately scaled development” to the areas where the community wants it, based on previously approved city policies and neighborhood small area plans.

“I’ll say this: I care a lot more about the people than the buildings. And people need a place to live,” she said. “If we don’t provide the housing people need, our neighbors are going to be displaced.”

Among Fine’s other top priorities is protecting and enhancing the city’s status as a so-called “sanctuary city” that welcomes immigrants and refugees. He said he would also work for property tax relief, possibly by reexamining the structure of the city’s tax system.

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The Skyway Senior Center is expected to close by the end of March after the city’s negotiations with a potential new sponsor failed to produce an agreement.

Four months of exclusive talks with Ecumen, a Shoreview-based senior housing and services provider, were not enough to come up with a plan that would keep the downtown senior center’s doors open. First opened in 2001, the center has been struggling financially since a previous sponsor, UCare, ended their arrangement in 2015.

Ecumen informed the city of its decision in a letter dated Feb. 22. Company spokesman Ben Taylor said the company aimed to expand

the center’s operations and impact, but doing that would require additional partnerships and more time.

“Going in, our intent was not to just keep going with the status quo,” Taylor said.

He said the company conducted a “deep-dive financial analysis” during a 120-day exclusive dealing period with the city and came to the conclusion it would take “at least double the budget, in the short run, just to get the center doing the kinds of things we thought were necessary and important.”

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Nonprofit fundraiser Adam Faitek will attempt to win the DFL endorsement for the Ward 13 City Council seat over incumbent Linea Palmisano. Submitted photo

Nonprofit fundraiser launches Ward 13 campaign In Ward 13 in the city’s Southwest corner, nonprofit fundraiser Adam Faitek has launched a campaign to win the DFL party endorsement next month over first-term incumbent Linea Palmisano.

Faitek, the major gifts officer for Second Harvest Heartland, said “one of the big reasons” he is making his first run for public office is to “make Ward 13 a place for everyone.”

“And right now there’s some challenges,” he added, citing work that needs to be done on multi-modal transit options and housing for seniors.

“I want to look at making Ward 13 more affordable. It’s one of the most, if not the most, expensive places to live in the city,” said Faitek, who lives in East Harriet with his wife, Molly. He said he would even look into rerouting the funds set aside for a Nicollet Avenue streetcar into affordable housing and economic development.

Asked where the incumbent has fallen short, he responded, “There’s just a lot of things we haven’t necessarily prioritized.”

Beyond the issue of affordable housing, Faitek said Palmisano could play a more prominent role in the ongoing debates over a citywide minimum wage and increasing equity. He supports a minimum wage hike for all workers, including those who earn tips.

He was critical of a vote Palmisano took in late 2014, during the “latte levy” city budget negotiations, to reduce by half the $250,000 in funding Mayor Betsy Hodges requested for a new Office of Equitable Outcomes. Palmisano was on the losing side in that 7-6 vote.

Asked to respond, Palmisano said, “To me,

equity is more than a buzzword.”

“We don’t need more studies and City Hall staffers on racial equity,” she continued. “Our challenge now is to move past rhetoric and toward solutions.”

She said those solutions included reduced penalties for marijuana possession and implementing a citywide sick time policy, two measures she supported.

Palmisano supports a citywide minimum wage increase that includes tipped workers, but said she was committed to seeing through “a process that listens” to Minneapolis residents and small business owners. That process is still ongoing; no specific minimum wage ordinance proposal has been brought to the council — which, she pointed out, is likely to act on the minimum wage issue this spring, months before the fall elections.

“I think we need to look at all options to close the widening economic gaps we have in the city,” Palmisano said, adding that she has voted with her colleagues multiple times to increase investments in the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund Program, which provides financing for mixed-income and affordable rental housing projects.

Faitek served as chair of the East Harriet Farmstead Neighborhood Association for five years, recently stepping down from the board to launch his campaign. If elected, he would seek ways to loosen restrictions on how neighborhood organizations can spend their funds.

He pledged to be a watchdog on stadia funding, particularly the city’s ongoing commitments to U.S. Bank Stadium.

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The 2,000-square-foot center is located on the skyway above LaSalle Avenue between 9th and 10th streets. It typically serves more than 70 visitors each day.

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wo weeks ago, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was interviewing conservative culture vulture George Will about the madness of the Trump presidency when Will offered some perspective and calm amidst the blowhard circus, coming correct when he said out loud a truth that has rarely, if ever, been uttered to a mainstream media audience that has been weaned on 24-7 outrageous breaking news.

“The presidency is not all of the federal government,” Will said, deliberately, as if he’s said it a hundred times before, “the federal government is not all of American government and government is not all of American life.”

Government is not all of American life.

We’ve been led to believe otherwise, of course, especially over the last two years and two months.

That is to say we’ve been duped, my fellow sucker Americans, and because they want us to believe we can’t get along without them, big media and government don’t want us to know that there’s much more to life (for starters: nature, books, music, food, inner lives, life itself, etc.) than what they’re feeding us, more than the malaise we’re being forced to navigate through every day.

Talking about soul upkeep here, and the incontrovertible truth is that there’s more to life than getting suckered by the divide-and-conquer forces who would control we the proletariat, much more if you’re truly living and participating in creating change and hope and not just spending every waking hour being outraged and working yourself to the bone while fighting the system and the Kremlin Klan in the White House.

History is watching us, of course, and we all need to speak truth to power about the hate, bigotry, lies and sexism of the times, and for sure there is so much to be mad as hell about, so much work to be done, but “to believe in this living is just a hard way to go” as John Prine sang, so I’m going another way.

I’m not alone. The great author George Saun-

ders, for one, told a packed Parkway Theater audience March 1 that his reaction to these crass times is to “double-down on art and double-down on empathy.” Of Trump, David Letterman this week told New York magazine: “I’m tired of people being bewildered about everything he says: ‘I can’t believe he said that.’ We gotta stop that and instead figure out ways to protect ourselves from him. We know he’s crazy. We gotta take care of ourselves here now.”

Good call. I got sick with the flu a couple weeks ago and I watched and read everything I could stomach about these historically bizarre times to the point where it became like a hot HD teat that I needed to suck and nod off to, a truth serum about American capitalism and testosterone run amok I simply couldn’t turn away from.

I watched it morning, noon and night and I was/ am addicted, even thought it went against every wise spiritual practice and learned way I’ve come to know. I ingested it all, all that toxic crap and all the talking heads’ bile and puss and noise and I spewed it out and I stewed in my own juices and probably made some people angry on Facebook, with me barfing and ranting about the muted state of journalism and columnists in a time of utter insanity and outrage, and I’m lucky to say I pulled out of my tailspin and broke the spell via, yes and yet again, real live contact with real live people.

One of who is the Rev. G. Travis Norvell, pastor at Judson Memorial Baptist Church on the corner of 41st & Harriet, whose progressive and inclusive agenda is a loving light in dim spiritual days and whose more-often-than-not-provocative church marquee the Sunday after the election read, “Nothing Has Changed.”

“That’s been pretty much the theme every Sunday since the election,” said Norvell. “Why are we letting Trump dictate the news cycle and what reality is? So in response one of the things we can do that no multi-national corporation can do is

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“We should [be part of the resistance], and we should be marching and protesting and involved and doing all we can, but that’s going to wear us out. We’re going to have nothing left if that’s all we do. We have to figure out where to concentrate our energies — say, focus on two things, rather than a million things, and we’ve got to trust that what we’re not doing, someone else is doing.”

BREAKING NEWS: The tragedy of the Trump presidency is that his rise to power says so much about us and exposes some ugly collective tics and histories of the tribe. As such, never in my life has the world felt less joyful … but also at the same time bursting with promise out of the current and coming chaos.

In the end I’ll be damned if I will let a greedy bunch of liars and power mad capitalist pigs take the joy out of me or make life itself feel shallow and not spiritual, and not soulful.

BREAKING NEWS: Real life is resistance!

Government is not all of American life.

“When I watch TV and listen to stuff on the radio, I just feel all it is it’s boiling me down to a …

I just feel like we’re letting people divide us: ‘You either agree with us or you hate us,’” said Norvell.

“And I just think that’s damaging to the soul. So we’ve got to just affirm our humanity and goodness in each other and in [practicing empathy with] people we can’t stand.

“My family is from West Virginia and they’re all Trump supporters. So am I going to let this election tear my relationships apart with people I’ve known since I was born? We can’t let elections do that to us. We can’t let politics do that to us. We’ve got to somehow transcend that and get to a deeper spot.”

Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis.

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concern that must be addressed by all sectors of our community. We appreciate Southwest Journal’s effort to raise public awareness around this issue.

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Support for Jeremy Schroeder in Ward 11

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In a year when many of us are looking for strong advocates who share our values, this year’s Minneapolis City Council elections are especially important. That’s why I’m thrilled to support my neighbor and friend, Jeremy Schroeder, in his campaign for the Ward 11 seat.

In previous elections, I supported the incumbent City Council member. But this time I don’t. Instead, I’m choosing the candidate who is smart, kind, energetic and a tireless advocate for everyone. Jeremy’s exemplary life of service to many different groups — from his successful campaign to eliminate the death penalty in Illinois to his current work advocating for affordable housing in Minnesota — provides him the tools needed to be an effective and responsive City Council member for our great city.

Jeremy is a coalition-builder who does something so often lacking in our current climate: He listens. He works hard to develop relationships with important collaborators, including the owners of businesses both large and small, homeowners, renters, lifelong city dwellers and recent immigrants. He is already extremely responsive to Ward 11 constituents, both in his council campaign and as a leader in the Hale-Page Diamond Lake Community Association. Also, I trust him to be an outcome-driven, trustworthy steward of the budget dollars he will manage as a part of the City Council.

I am so excited for more of my neighbors to get to know Jeremy. We are lucky that someone

I was interested to read the article “Officials work to combat rising opioid overdoses,” published Feb. 22 on the Southwest Journal website (“Feeling the pain” in the Feb. 23 print edition). As with many health issues, the problem of opioid abuse is a gut-wrenching and complicated challenge and involves multiple contributing factors. Addressing it will require a collective community effort.

One local initiative not mentioned in the article is the work being done by Hennepin County Public Health’s Red Door clinic (reddoorclinic.org). Since 2015, Red Door has offered Naloxone, a medication that blocks the effects of opioids and can prevent overdose deaths. Anyone — including the family or friends of an opioid user — can walk into Red Door during clinic hours to pick up Naloxone.

The clinic is also a place where opioid users can get tested for infections and get connected to recovery resources. Red Door is committed to confidentiality and will not turn anyone away because of an inability to pay.

Additionally, Hennepin County runs a medication collection and disposal program to curb the excess supply of opioids. Residents can bring their unused or expired opioids to nine drop box locations within the county. The initiative helps prevent opioid abuse, accidental poisoning and water contamination. (Go to hennepin.us/residents/recycling-hazardouswaste/medicine-disposal for a guide to drop box locations.)

Opioid abuse is a serious public health

Looking back through the lens of racial justice I feel very lucky to have grown up in Southwest Minneapolis and attended public elementary, middle and high schools. In many ways I feel like I received an extraordinary education, but recent experiences have highlighted some blind spots for me that I wanted to take the time to write about.

Currently I work for a non-profit law firm that represents low-income people in civil courts. As part of our commitment to fighting for racial justice, staff members have been encouraged to participate in workshops and discussions about institutional racism. It has been striking to think back over my childhood and adolescence in Southwest Minneapolis through this lens.

Specifically, through high school I had always assumed that my social circles and classrooms were predominantly white as a function of living in a mostly white neighborhood in a mostly white city. Even ignoring the fact that this was consciously achieved through redlining, it’s only recently that I’ve recognized how my classrooms (and subsequently, social circles) became increasingly white over the course of my time in public schools. Looking back at pictures from elementary school, I see myself surrounded by Hmong and AfricanAmerican friends, but by junior year, my classrooms were almost exclusively white.

Once I recognized this trend of de facto racial segregation during my time in public schools, the mechanism by which it had been achieved was not hard to identify. Starting roughly in fourth grade, teachers and administrators began to identify me as doing well on tests and started placing me in advanced classes and programs.

Unsurprisingly, these classes were disproportionately filled with students from white families that were economically secure. This process culminated in my being accepted to and attending Southwest’s predominantly white International Baccalaureate magnet program instead of Washburn, which would have been a five-minute walk from my house. In hindsight it is painfully clear that, due to the structure of the Minneapolis public school system, the more “successful” I was academically, the less day-today contact I would have with people of color.

The one exception to the trend of segregation was the dual-immersion Spanish program that was offered in my freshman and sophomore years and which provided the only meaningfully diverse experience of my time in high school. White students learning Spanish were placed in history and science classes alongside Hispanic students, and the classes were taught in Spanish. After my sophomore year I learned that funding had been pulled for this program, and I returned to overwhelmingly white classrooms (and my Spanish started to deteriorate).

I write this in the hope that parents and educators in Southwest Minneapolis will take the time and effort to consider how the structure of education systems in a self-proclaimed progressive city can have insidious effects that undermine important goals of racial integration.

Jay Ackley, Southwest High School ‘05 Brooklyn, NY

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Southwest Nordic caps season with state title Nordic ski team wins second title in two years

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

The Southwest High School boy’s Nordic team reached an unprecedented level of success the past two years, winning the first two state titles in school history.

That success was due in part to hard work during the offseason, team members said.

The team did training during the summer three years ago, working with Piotr Bednarski of Loppet Nordic Racing. It took a training trip to Colorado early in the 2015–2016 season, a high-altitude training experience team members said paid off later in the season.

“You just feel better,” 10th-grader Henry Hall said. “You basically go faster for working less.”

The team won the Section 2 meet in 2016 to advance to state. It entered the state meet ranked second and won by seven points over Stillwater.

The team graduated just one skier from its 2016 state-championship squad, leading coach Drew Holbrook to predict another state title in 2017. Holbrook also predicted the girls team would place at state, despite not even qualifying as a team in 2016.

The boys team wanted to prove they were a strong team that could repeat as state champions, 11th-grader Torsten Brinkema said. The team took its fall training seriously and made big improvements, according to 12th-grader Adlai Sinkler.

The team stayed healthy throughout the year and won its section meet by a large margin, taking five of the seven top spots. The girls team also won its section meet, earning three of the six top spots.

The boys team was ranked first in state

The Southwest girl’s Nordic team at its Section 2 meet. Photo courtesy Southwest Nordic

Members of the Southwest boy’s Nordic team (From left to right): Torsten Brinkema, Adlai Sinkler, Foss Kerker and Henry Hall. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

heading into the state meet, and the girls were seventh. Several coaches went up to Giants Ridge a day early to wax skis.

The boys won the meet by “a comfortable margin” over second-place Wayzata, coach Chris Johnson said. Four skiers earned all-state honors: 12th-grader Foss Kerker, Brinkema, Sinkler and Hall.

The girls team finished in a three-way tie for third place with Stillwater and Duluth East but won the tiebreaker with the fastest combined time.

Johnson said he thinks the team’s attention to detail contributed to the third-place finish.

He said the coaches’ strengths complement each other, and they are honest with each

other and with the kids.

“We’ve done things the right way for the long term,” he said. “The kids are becoming well-rounded people, ultimately, which is why we do this.”

All of the boys said they race for club teams as well as for high school teams, but Sinkler said he gets most nervous before high school races, because his teammates are counting on him.

“Warming up before the state meet, my heart rate is like 20 beats higher than it usually is,” he said.

Team members said they are close with one another, hanging out with each other all the time. Johnson gives each member a nickname according to a different theme. Last year the

names had to do with monster trucks. This year, Johnson gave everyone a name focused around thoroughbred horses.

Johnson has been with the team since 2011, when he connected with coach James Dundon at a mountain bike race. He, Dundon and Holbrook helped build the program over the past few years, along with parents Bill and Linda Kerker. They helped the boys team earn its first trip to state in 2015, where they finished 10th.

The program added Leslie Hale this past season as the girls coach. It also added Conlan Olson, a 2016 Southwest graduate who was on a gap year, as an assistant.

Tenth-grader Lily Richmond said the girls team wasn’t expecting to finish third at state.

The team will graduate just one of its top seven skiers from this past season, and Hale said she guesses it will be ranked first or second in state to start next season.

“Now we’re on the radar,” she said.

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The lighting is also vastly improved, with those curved fixtures hanging above either end of the drawers beneath the windows, just the right number of recessed can lights, LEDs in the stove hood, under the cabinets and inside the glass cupboards.

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Ramsey site council moves name change forward The Ramsey Middle School site council voted March 7 in favor of changing the school’s name.

The site council voted to send three potential namesakes to the Board of Education: ex-Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle and former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page, 19th-century physician Martha Ripley and the phrase Bde Ota, which means “many lakes” in the Dakota language.

Most site council members had Page as their first choice for a new namesake. Their motion to the School Board emphasizes that Page is the top choice.

Site council members were almost unanimously in favor of sending their recommendation for changing the name to the School Board.

Their vote came after “hours of email discussion,” according to Principal Erin Rathke, who stressed that any rename would not take over the academic priorities of the building.

The Ramsey community had voted on the five finalists for a potential new school namesake — Dorothy Vaughan, Page, Prince Rogers Nelson, Bde Ota and Ripley — during a Feb. 28 community event.

More than 130 people cast votes at the event, with Page, Ripley and Bde Ota receiving the most votes. Page was above the other two “by a lot,” according to social studies teacher Paul Sommers.

Ramsey is currently named after former Minnesota governor Alexander Ramsey, who was governor of Minnesota during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Ramsey said in a speech during the war that “the Sioux Indians of Minnesota must be exterminated or driven forever beyond the borders of Minnesota.”

Thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged in the war’s aftermath, and several thousand Dakota people were forced from their homelands and into camps. Minnesota later offered bounties for Dakota scalps in response to raids by Dakota in southern Minnesota.

Ramsey sixth-graders learn about Alexander Ramsey’s role in the state’s history as part of their History of Minnesota course. Each year, many of them question why the school would be named after Alexander Ramsey, Sommers and art teacher Elissa Cedarleaf Dahl wrote on a

Ramsey Middle School students and community members discuss a potential name change for the school during a Feb. 28 community event. Photos by Nate Gotlieb

website dedicated to the renaming effort.

“Students at this age become very tuned in to a sense of justice and are beginning to carve out their morals and values,” the website says. “They seek heroes to emulate and many do not find inspiration in our current namesake.”

Ramsey students have expressed interest in renaming the school each year since it began operating as a middle school five years ago, Sommers and Cedarleaf Dahl wrote. This year, students came to the first open house ready to start the campaign, passing out “Rename Ramsey” stickers to students and staff.

“They were letting me know the first day I was here that this was something they wanted to pursue,” Rathke said.

The school’s instructional leadership team and site council voted unanimously this past fall to start exploring a name change. The school hosted a community event in December to discuss the process, and leaders of the effort presented the top five names to the student body during a February assembly.

Students helped raise money to support the effort, hosting a shoveling fundraiser over winter break. They also helped at a fundraiser last month to raise money for the effort.

Ramsey had raised $7,500 for the effort as of Feb. 26, according to the website. District policy requires that recommendations for a name change come with a plan for paying for any

Ramsey Middle School students vote on their preferences for a potential new namesake for the school.

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Rathke said the process has given the students “a really rigorous life skills-filled curriculum around something that’s very real for them.” She didn’t give her opinion about a potential name change but said she’s excited for the kids that it’s gone this far.

Tonya Tennessen, the district’s chief communications officer, said in a statement that the district is proud of the Ramsey students “because student voices are critical in any discussion of equity.”

“While it is still fairly early in the process, we support their efforts to drive this important conversation and look forward to hearing the recommendations of the school,” she said.

The change appears to have broad support among the Ramsey community.

A website survey found that 85 percent of the Ramsey community favored renaming the school. A survey of students found that 75 percent of them were in favor of a name change. Staff support was at 95 percent, another survey found.

Students at the community event said they want a name that’s more representative of their values.

“It just doesn’t represent what we think at the school or who we are,” said eighth-grader Audrey Cronin.

Eighth-grader Lou Lou Lambert said she favors naming the school after Prince, since he “broke so many boundaries about what it meant to be so many different things.”

Eighth-grader Olivia Bordon said she favors the name Bde Ota. Bordon noted that the renaming process came about because of what Alexander Ramsey did to the Dakota, adding that it would be “empowering” to have a Dakota word as the name.

Ramsey parent Marshall Onsrud, who attended the school as a student, said he was apprehensive about the effort at first but became excited after he saw the students’ effort.

Onsrud, whose dad also attended Ramsey, didn’t vote on any of the names but said they are all good choices.

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Minneapolis Chief of Schools Michael Thomas, mayoral candidate Nekima Levy-Pounds and Minneapolis NAACP President Jason Sole. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

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Her admonition got the students’ attention. Levy-Pounds went on to tell them of her experience growing up in south-central Los Angeles, of seeing police come through her community and people strung out on drugs. It was the lawyers she saw on TV as a 9-year-old, she said, that inspired her to go into law and change her community.

“Latch onto whoever is pouring good things into your life,” Levy-Pounds told the students. “... It’s about all of us coming together, doing our part and lifting each other up.”

Levy-Pounds and the other panelists, Minneapolis Chief of Schools Michael Thomas and Minneapolis NAACP President Jason Sole, talked about their formative experiences, their mentors and their thoughts on being black leaders during the discussion. It came during MPS’ first-ever Black Teen Summit, an event intended to give students a greater knowledge of past African-American leaders and connect them with current black leaders, said Michael Walker, director of MPS’ Office of Black Male Student Achievement.

The summit started with students giving presentations on African-American leaders not traditionally talked about in curriculum, such as Medgar Evers and Fred Hampton, Walker said. It also included the lunch-hour panel, an afternoon leadership session from the YMCA and speeches from Mahmoud El-Kati, a lecturer, writer and commentator on the African-American experience, as well as Superintendent Ed Graff.

About 350 students attended the event, held at the University of Minnesota’s Coffman Memorial Union.

Learning the system The summit was a microcosm of what the Office of Black Male Student Achievement does each day, said Education Equity Coordinator Corey Yeager.

The office offers a daily elective class called, BLACK, which stands for “building lives, acquiring cultural knowledge,” in four middle schools and four high schools. There’s also a weekly pullout class that serves about 30 students at two elementary schools, Walker said.

Walker and Yeager’s office also offers professional development to staff, during which they try and help teachers become aware of and override their biases, Yeager said.

The goal of BLACK is to give black male students a broader and deeper context of how they fit into the American education system, Yeager said. The students learn how AfricanAmericans didn’t come to the U.S. with the opportunity to pursue education and how their voices were absent in the education system.

The hope is that knowledge gives them a greater chance of success, Yeager said.

Students of color in Minneapolis and statewide graduate at lower rates than white students, are less likely to be “on track for success” and are less likely to meet state academic standards, Minnesota Department of Education data show. They are also

suspended at higher rates and are less likely to enroll in college.

“Once you learn the system,” Yeager said, “then you can play better within that. That’s what our students have missed.”

A key point for Yeager and Walker is that black men are the ones who teach the class. The teachers teach the boys “what manhood (and) being a black man looks like,” Yeager said.

“We become uncles in the classroom,” he said.

He said that the students might not have that understanding of manhood. Research says about 70 percent of children of color are raised in a one-parent household, he noted, adding that those kids are mostly raised by mothers.

South High School 11th-grader Roy Holliday said he feels like the BLACK program needs to be in every school, saying that it pushes him to do better. He said the class provides him a safe haven to talk and speak his mind and that it’s given a lot of black males hope and confidence.

“We’re all a family,” he said of the students and teachers in the program. “It’s like half mentor and half, ‘I want you to succeed.’ ”

‘Thousands lifted me up’ Levy-Pounds, Thomas and Sole all stressed that theme of mentorship during the panel discussion, noting the people and moments that inspired their paths in life.

Levy-Pounds said she had strong black female teachers in Los Angeles who treated her like she was their daughter and “looked at me and saw my potential.” They told her she could rise above the challenges she faced in her neighborhood.

Thomas, the chief of schools, noted an experience in his early 20s that he said profoundly shaped him. He was working a part-time job in an afterschool program when a 10-year-old boy said to him, “I wish I had a dad like you.”

“You have power beyond your own belief sometimes,” Thomas told the students during the panel discussion.

Sole said the people in his life believed in him despite his felony convictions. He said he had to make changes in his life to get to where he is today.

He added that leaders have the job of showing their friends and family what they are good at, noting that everyone has a purpose in life.

“We need to lift our brothers and sisters up,” he said.

Seventh-grader Lorenzo Doby said he liked that the speakers told the students to fight for what they think is right. Doby, who grabbed autographs from Levy-Pounds and Thomas after the discussion, said that he hopes that at least one of them decides to run for president in 2020.

Doby said he strives to get good grades and that the forum inspired him to possibly consider a career as a lawyer, something in politics or an author. He said liked that the panelists overcame adversity and challenges early in their lives.

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Public Safety Update

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

After murders, residents grapple with apartment safety An apartment building at 2101 3rd Ave. S. has seen three murders in the past two years.

An apparent drug deal in May 2015 resulted in shots fired, a woman stabbed her boyfriend in June of that same year and a fatal stabbing in January allegedly involved people who knew each other. Officials have secured convictions in the first two cases and have charged a suspect in the third.

Neighbors are trying to make sense of the recurring violence.

“It’s hard to make heads or tails of it,” said one resident who requested not to print his name. “We have good neighbors and we have a good community. The things that happened here didn’t deserve to happen. … This building is probably considered the most dangerous in Minneapolis, and there is no reason for it.”

When he tells co-workers about the murders, their first question is: Are you going to move?

His answer: No. “This is my home,” he said. “No matter where I go in the city, these things can happen.”

During the first shooting, the resident heard shots and a scream, and he could hear running out in the hall. Five weeks later, the resident got a text from a neighbor asking why cops had come to the building.

“It was basically like being punched in the gut,” he said. “Not again.”

A year-and-a-half later, one of his neighbors simply held up three fingers to tell him it had happened again.

“The reaction is fear and anger,” the resi-

An apartment building at 2101 3rd Ave. S., the site of three homicides since the spring of 2015.

Photo by Michelle Bruch

dent said. “The reaction is: Why does this keep on happening?”

Police said the homicides were isolated incidents with unique circumstances. The department has documented 15 calls for service since January 2016.

Mint Properties has met with Minneapolis Police as well as the Whittier Alliance neighborhood organization. Mint Properties did not respond for comment. Minneapolis Police Sgt. Catherine Michal said the building security plan is not public data.

The resident said he likes the landlord.

He said fliers have announced plans to fix up the building.

“I know they want to do the right thing,” he said.

Charles Glasgow, who lives next door, is skeptical of renovation work.

“When you do stuff like that, you’re looking for your rent to triple,” Glasgow said.

Glasgow has seen the violence next door at close range. In the summer of 2015, homicide victim Anthony Morgan ran out of the building bleeding profusely, saying his girlfriend had stabbed him. Glasgow held a towel on Morgan’s

throat before paramedics arrived.

Glasgow is well-known in the neighborhood — “Chuck here is the community watch,” his neighbor said. He throws a block party every July. On a recent 60-degree day in March, he brought out chairs (one labeled “Chuck’s chair”) and grilled with a group of people in front of his apartment. He greeted everyone who came in and out of the building, and recognized several people passing on the sidewalk.

Glasgow said there was a time when drug activity was pervasive in the neighborhood, but it’s improved in the past 10 years. He said his grandkids visit, so he tries to keep an eye on things.

“The idea of meeting out here — they don’t want me to see what they’re doing,” he said.

The Whittier Alliance anticipates partnering with Mint Properties this spring to encourage more community gathering. The idea builds on a project last year to create “friendly” front lawns at apartment buildings with new lighting, games and places to sit while kids play.

“It’s the idea of eyes on the street,” said Ricardo McCurley, executive director of the Whittier Alliance. “It’s eyes in the building and creating community even within the building, as opposed to just the block or the whole neighborhood.”

The apartment resident said he’s considering reaching out to the Whittier Alliance to talk about his building.

“I want to make it safer, I just don’t know how,” he said.

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new, because what was going on wasn’t working,” Beane said.

The decision to try large-scale agriculture became the basis for Cloud Man Village, located east of Lake Calhoun with boundaries that stretched slightly north of present day 34th Street, east past Fremont and south into Lakewood Cemetery.

Beane and other descendants of Cloud Man are working with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on a public art project to commemorate the Dakota’s time in the area.

The memorial will stand on a 60-foot strip of shoreland on the southeast corner of Lake Calhoun. Ideas include a deck approaching the water, an extension of the existing cedar trees that hold a commemorative plaque, and hoop staffs in four spots around the lake. They’re planning a garden of medicinal plants used by the Dakota, perhaps cultivated by Native youth and other community members. Artist selection is underway, and a final concept will go before the Park Board in April.

On a recent warm day in March, Michael Garcia biked to the lake and splashed water on the Dakota plaque, which includes a map in relief that can be hard to read.

“When it dries, everything becomes more defined,” he said. “As the wind’s drying it, you can see the outline of the trees.”

Garcia has Dakota ancestry, and said he stops at the plaque all the time. When the public art project is finished, he said he’ll bring his grandkids.

“It’s a nice spot,” he said.

Picturing Cloud Man Village The Dakota constructed Cloud Man Village in a marshy area they previously used as a place to harvest wild rice. They called it Heyate Otunwe, or “the village at the side.”

Syd Beane, Kate’s father, said the Dakota lived in birch-bark lodges, using tepees for

Four descendants of Cloud Man at a recent Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board meeting.

Pictured (l to r) are Lisa Ferguson, Nate Beulah, Syd Beane and Linda Lamont. Photo

by Michelle Bruch

traveling and hunting.

Much of the following history is described in “Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota,” a book by Gwen Westerman and Bruce White in which Kate and Syd served as consultants.

The Dakota at Cloud Man Village had always gardened and harvested food from wild and native plants, but the concept of largescale farming and living off plants not indigenous to the area was something new. They accepted government seed and farm tools to start planting.

Most of the agricultural work was done by women, to the chagrin of European settlers who wanted men to take a more active role.

Pond said the village of 207 people harvested 2,300 bushels of corn and 200 bushels of potatoes that year.

Instead of preserving food for the winter, the village shared the food with surrounding Dakota people, which frustrated a government agent who couldn’t understand why they gave their corn away.

“During that era, there is documentation that nobody starved,” Kate said.

Aside from relying on agriculture, the village also continued to fish (catching bullheads at present-day Lake Hiawatha) and hunt at places like the Rum River.

The village is the first place the Dakota

language was comprehensively written down.

Missionaries Samuel and Gideon Pond arrived in 1834, documenting the Dakota language with the intention to translate the Bible.

Samuel Pond described one Sabbath morning in August 1835: A man came to borrow an ax, another chopped wood outside the window and women and children screamed to drive blackbirds out of the corn.

He became upset to learn the Dakota would play ball near his house that day, an occasion where hundreds would assemble and no one would listen to his sermons.

The Dakota played lacrosse against villages all over the state. All able-bodied men played, and women played a form of the game on frozen water.

Cloud Man Village was abandoned in 1839 due to fear of retaliation from the Ojibwe. An account by Gideon Pond and Stephen Riggs said the killing of a Dakota hunter at Lake Harriet flared into open war in Stillwater and the Rum River, and the Dakota displayed scalps at the village on 70 poles. They moved to farm in relative safety along the Minnesota River near Bloomington.

The war between the Dakota and the United States began in the fall of 1862. Nearly 2,000 Dakota, including Cloud Man, were placed in a concentration camp at Fort Snelling the winter

of 1862-1863. Cloud Man and hundreds more died at the camp on Pike Island. (Pike island is open to hikers at Fort Snelling State Park.)

Survivors were removed from Minnesota by steamboat down the Mississippi River.

Cloud Man’s descendants reflect Cloud Man’s daughters married into non-native families. While Syd’s ancestors were exiled following the war, Edina resident Lisa Ferguson’s ancestor Jane Lamont was given away to be raised by Samuel Pond.

“For me, ever since I was little, I heard there was some Chief in our family. But nobody knew information,” Ferguson said. “… Lake Calhoun just seemed to suck me in.”

She finally met a history buff who showed her the two existing markers. One was installed in 1930 at the southeast corner of the lake to “perpetuate the memory of the Sioux or Dakota Indians who occupied this region for more than two centuries prior to the treaties of 1851.” A second marker installed in 1908 is located on the east side of the lake, highlighting the 1834 dwelling of missionaries Samuel and Gideon Pond on the hill where St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church is today.

“For many years all I wanted was some recognition of the village,” she said.

“That village really was the first multicultural, year-round settlement in the city of Minneapolis,” Syd said. “The Dakota people did not have the concept of private property. … The Park Board is a public entity, and the land belongs to all of us. … This is going to go on and live beyond our lives.”

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Lynnhurst

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Located southeast of Lake Harriet, Lynnhurst is a largely residential neighborhood whose mix of stately lake-adjacent homes and smaller bungalows was mostly developed before 1940.

The neighborhood takes its name from the centrally located Lynnhurst Park.

According to a city profile, the park’s name, which dates to 1921, was likely inspired by the linden trees then growing in the area.

Lynnhurst has an abundance of parkland, including its portion of the Lake Harriet shoreline. Minnehaha Creek meanders west to east through the middle of the neighborhood, interrupting the orderly grid of Minneapolis’ streets and avenues.

The Malt Shop, first opened in 1973, is one of the Lynnhurst’s best known local businesses. Today, its neighbors at the 50th & Bryant commercial node are restaurants in the style of a French bistro and an English pub — St. Genevieve and George and the Dragon, respectively. A Patina and Zinnia Folk Arts draw shoppers searching for gifts.

Other neighborhood landmarks include Burroughs Community School, located across the street from the park on a stretch of West 50th Street shared by Mount Olivet Lutheran Church and Shir Tikvah Synagogue. Guse Hardware at 46th & Bryant is the old-school neighborhood hardware store adapted to modern times; it was joined in 2010 by Guse Green Grocer, a corner store that stocks a selection of local and healthier foods.

NEIGHBORHOOD RUNDOWN Boundaries: Located on the southeastern side of Lake Harriet, Lynnhurst’s borders are defined by Penn Avenue on the west, Lyndale Avenue on the east, West 54th Street on the south and West 46th Street on the north.

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The median household income was $114,873.

Get involved: The all-volunteer Lynnhurst Neighborhood Association meets at 6 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at the Lynnhurst Community Center, 1345 W. Minnehaha Parkway. For more information, go to lynnhurst.org.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Lynnhurst

STATE DIRECTOR OF AARP EVALUATES ‘AGING IN PLACE’ IN LYNNHURST

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Lynnhurst resident Will Phillips calls his neighborhood a “20-minute village.”

“When I think about where I live, I can walk to virtually everything I need in approximately 20 minutes, which is pretty incredible,” Phillips said.

The concept is important to Phillips in his role as state director of the AARP. He pointed to a senior livability index developed

by AARP that can scrutinize neighborhoods down to the census block. Lynnhurst scores in the top third of the country for its access to parks, grocery stores, quality health care and the frequency of local transit.

“The neighborhood itself is fairly consistent with the city,” Phillips said. “It’s not a place that you just pass through, it’s a place where people want to be, with access to parks and trails and other amenities, including some of the conveniences that people need, such as grocery stores.”

In Minnesota, the demographic of residents age 65 and older is projected to grow 41 percent between 2010 and 2020, according to Minneapolis’ “Age Friendly Action Plan.” Minneapolis has a younger population than many other U.S. cities, according to the plan, but the proportion of older adults is projected to grow rapidly.

Minneapolis already experienced a 9-percent increase in its 50-plus population between 2010 and 2015.

Phillips said Lynnhurst’s older housing stock can also prove challenging for people as they age, where laundry machines are typically in the basement and a bathroom might be up a flight of stairs. Citywide, more than 80 percent of houses are split entry or multi-level.

Most Minneapolitans want to stay in their homes as they age, according to the city, and older adults are less likely to move after retirement than they were 30 years ago. But that starts to change in the mid-70s due to limited mobility, home upkeep and isolation.

While remaining in a particular home can be challenging, seniors report they still want to stay in the community.

City officials are working to make that happen. The City Council adopted a plan to add senior housing in each ward of the city.

The city now allows construction of accessory dwelling units or “granny flats.” The city also has a new goal to set aside at least $1 million for seniors in a program to retrofit and rehab homes.

“Minneapolis is really tackling this challenge,” Phillips said.

AARP’s livability tool is available at livabilityindex.aarp.org.

Will Phillips, pictured at the 2015 Twin Cities Jazz Festival.

Photo courtesy of AARP

Philips said seniors and young people want the same things out of a neighborhood. Both say they want walkability, affordable housing that’s close to shops and more transportation choices that free them from cars.

Park access is particularly beneficial for seniors. Time spent in green spaces — and “blue” spaces, like lakes — motivates seniors to become more active and social, according to research conducted in Vancouver by Jessica Finlay. Blue spaces in particular help seniors feel reduced stress, Finlay found.

Phillips said another of Lynnhurst’s amenities is its high civic engagement.

“We know that as you age, those community connections and the opportunity to connect with your neighbors, to contribute to the health of your community … those are really important,” Phillips said. “Older adults really outstrip other segments of the population in terms of their rates of entrepreneurship, rates of civic engagement and volunteerism.”

The AARP index scores Lynnhurst in the bottom third of the country on a few other factors, however, including housing affordability, which the U.S. Census calculates at $1,764 per month or 25.6 percent of income.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Lynnhurst

LOVING LIFE IN LYNNHURST Story and photos by Janelle Nivens

When my husband and I decided to make Lynnhurst our home, we were drawn its amenities. We liked the proximity to Minnehaha Creek and Lake Harriet, a library, retail and restaurants. Now that we’ve been here for more than four years, we know it is the people living and working here who make this place great. Here’s a sampling of neighbors who add to the sense of community within Lynnhurst.

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Claude and Laurel Riedel regularly hear people shouting, “I love your garden!” while walking, biking or driving past their home. They were quick to tell me that this hasn’t always been the case. In 1988, when the couple bought the home, they inherited a burned out lawn without much character.

For the past 29 years, they have been transforming their property into a “Northwoods Zen” style garden. They were early adopters in the recent trend of designing front yards to engage the public. Leading up to their front entry, there are several varieties of conifer and large boulders. It was surprising to learn that the ground is covered with six varieties of thyme. Perennials and annuals add pops of bright pink and yellow.

Built into the landscape are a limestone bench and a Little Free Library. They envisioned people walking from The Malt Shop down the street to stop, sit and enjoy the garden with their malts. The Riedel’s philosophy has been that when you put art into the community, people respond.

Carolyn Halliday is a visual artist who takes daily walks as part of her creative process and meditative practice.

While walking through Lynnhurst, Halliday takes photos of patterns and textures that pull her in. She likes details of nature and “blobs of human influence” like graffiti and scrap construction material.

Halliday also collects items discarded by humans and nature to be used in her artwork, like in the piece titled “A Kind of Diary of 2011 (stuff I picked up on my daily walks).” On a couple of occasions, she has placed her artwork back into nature to delight passersby. Follow Carolyn’s discoveries on Instagram at instagram.com/artknitter.

The largest art installation in Lynnhurst can be found on the corner of 53rd & Lyndale at South Lyndale Liquors. The vibrant art is the work of muralist Erin Sayer (erinsayer.com).

The parking lot side features vignettes from the Prohibition era. On 53rd Street, Sayer recently completed a huge landscape of Lake Harriet. You may see part of the scene come to life as South Lyndale Liquors owner, Dan Campo and his St. Bernards, Tobias and Oakley, ride a motorcycle around the neighborhood together.

While walking through Lynnhurst, I often find more subtle artistic expressions and small adaptations to everyday objects and experiences. Like the homeowners near 53rd & Morgan who etched words like “Giggle” and “Believe” into their sidewalk. Or the knitter who created feet on USPS mailboxes.

The Eames family — Amanda, Pete and daughters Abby, 9, and Anna, 6 — have a tradition of setting out toy animals in their sidewalk garden. A former neighbor gifted them whales, a dinosaur and a birdhouse to seed their collection. They have several “regulars” that stop by on their daily walks and have even had anonymous donors.

This family is full of talented sidewalk chalk artists. Past exhibits featured the solar system, family portraits and the “longest hopscotch ever.” In the warmer months, Amanda will often find children drawing with the bucket of sidewalk chalk she left for them. By creating a friendly front (and side) yard, the Eames have met many neighbors and are happy that people find joy in the toys and art.

LIBRARIANS AND BOOK LOVERS On a recent visit to Washburn Library, I met Hilary Moon-Murphy, a youth services librarian. On a tour of her favorite features of the library, we started in the children’s area. Moon-Murphy enjoys witnessing families as they discover details in “Laughing Water,” a mural painted by Virginia Bradley.

Next, we followed a trail of felt paw prints to a quiet corner where kids were reading to certified therapy animals. A longstanding tradition at Washburn is the communal jigsaw puzzle located in the reading room. The person who finishes the puzzle gets the honor of selecting the next one.

In addition to library staff, the Friends of the Washburn Library volunteers enhance the library experience. They are the people to thank for creating the beautiful welcome planters at the entrance. They also organize book sales and other fundraising activities for special programming and projects.

Scattered throughout Lynnhurst, you’ll find several Little Free Libraries. These small wooden boxes of books are located in front yards, where visitors can take a book or return a book.

Tom and Janet Midtbo, Lynnhurst residents for 45 years, have had a Little Free Library since 2012. Their son, Andy, built one from recycled construction materials for Tom’s 72nd birthday.

The first year Tom had the library, he took a daily inventory and recorded the book circulation on a spreadsheet.

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Sensory toys soothe kids, teens in city’s rec centers The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is implementing sensory toys to soothe kids and teens who participate in many of its recreation centers programs.

The Park Board’s Rec Plus school-age childcare program first used the toys as part of a trial run at three sites last summer. The toys, which are part of “calming boxes,” are meant to aid children and distract them from causes of stress.

The boxes or kits contain items that engage children through touch, sight and other senses.

The board said the sensory stimulation helps kids regulate their emotions and bodies during

times of stress. The kits include a fiber optic lamp, Thinking Putty and Floam, among other objects. The board also encourages onsite staff to add their own items — things like Rubik’s Cubes, books and playing cards.

After the trial run, the board has now added calming boxes to all Rec Plus sites — such as recreation centers in the Lynnhurst, Armatage and Kenwood neighborhoods — and recreation centers with Teen Teamworks programming.

A few preschool programs run through city rec centers also have the kits.

New “calming boxes” include toys and other items to help kids at recreation centers destress. Photos courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

Park Board to celebrate groundbreaking of new rec center The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will celebrate the groundbreaking of a new recreation center in Northeast Minneapolis this month.

The new 15,000-square-foot Northeast Athletic Field Park Recreation Center includes a full-court gym, walking track, classrooms, an activity space and a community-learning kitchen. The rec center will be located directly north of the Jim Lupient Water Park in the Northeast Park neighborhood.

Park and local officials will host a ground-

The new Northeast Athletic Field Park Recreation Center is slated to open in early 2018.

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Tire-waste recommendations move forward The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is pushing back on a resolution that would prohibit the use of city funds to install or replace any facilities or amenities that use waste tires, including the playgrounds where shredded-tire mulch is used as a fall-cushioning ground cover.

Park Board Superintendent Jayne Miller and President Anita Tabb wrote in a letter to City Council Member Cam Gordon that any city ban prior to the completion of two major studies is “premature.” The Environmental Protection Agency and state of California are currently looking into safety of fields and playgrounds that use waste tires.

Miller and Tabb also wrote that a ban might limit the Park Board’s ability to build the kinds of facilities that the public has asked for through “years of community engagement.” In an interview, Park Board Director of Strategic Planning Adam Arvidson said the resolution could lead to increased costs for the construction of the Currie Park field in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood.

Waste tires are commonly used as ground cover on playgrounds and as infill in synthetic turf fields. Minneapolis Public Schools has 47 playgrounds and one athletic field that use the material, and the Park board has no playgrounds and eight athletic fields that use it.

Parents in Minneapolis have been pushing the school district to remove and replace waste tires from district playgrounds for the past several years, out of concerns of the potential health effects of chemicals in rubber mulch.

That concern led the Minneapolis Health, Environment & Community Engagement Committee to create an independent subcommittee to study the issue this past year.

The subcommittee found tire rubber contains a variety of chemicals that are known to be toxic, but it said the health risk due to exposure to these chemicals has not yet been determined. It cited competing concerns, including increasing playtime throughout Minnesota seasons, safety and injury management, costs of installation and maintenance and field/playground durability.

It recommended a moratorium on city-

The Park Board has expressed reservations about a City Council resolution that would prohibit Minneapolis from using funds to buy shredded-tire mulch. File photo

financed projects using crumb rubber and tire mulch through 2019, outside of the 20-year Neighborhood Park Plan. NPP20 will provide $11 million annually to Minneapolis parks through 2036.

Gordon, who chairs the Health, Environment & Community Engagement Committee, said he felt that recommendation didn’t go far enough. He said he comes at this issue from more of a “precautionary principle” and feels he doesn’t need to wait for the other studies.

“It’s not built for people to play on,” he said of tire mulch. “It’s built for cars to drive on, so we should find something better.”

Miller and Tabb wrote that the resolution will limit the Park Board’s ability to implement projects on budget and may reduce the total amount of amenities it is able to build. The Park Board would prefer any action to be more in line with the waste-tire subcommittee’s recommendations, they wrote.

Arvidson said it’s “probably unclear” what real restrictions the city can put on the NPP20 money. He said the Park Board does have

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It’s unknown how many waste-tire projects will be a part of the NPP20, because the Park Board hasn’t finished master planning for neighborhood parks, Arvidson said. He said the field at Currie Park could be potentially most impacted by this discussion, because of plans to expand the field in 2019.

The Park Board is still continuing to look at different products, Arvidson said, but “to us it feels premature to tie our hands.”

In a letter to the committee, parent Nancy Brown wrote that Play It Safe Minneapolis, a group founded with the goal of removing waste tires from the Minneapolis school district’s playgrounds, “strongly endorses” Gordon’s resolution. Brown noted the health concerns related to toxins in waste tires and said those materials create heat islands in the warmer months and migrate into waterways.

Play It Safe had previously called for the subcommittee recommendations to include NPP20 in the moratorium.

Health, Environment & Community Engagement Committee members on Feb. 27 voted unanimously to send the resolution to the full City Council. All appeared in consensus that they don’t want to see waste-tire products used in Minneapolis playgrounds.

Council Member Jacob Frey said he’s “150 percent” in favor of eliminating waste-tire products moving forward but added that his concerns are monetary. He said he understands it would cost $3.3 million to change these playgrounds and said he’s concerned about the $28-million budget gap Minneapolis Public Schools faces in the upcoming year.

The school district estimated it would cost more than $1.1 million to convert the 47 rubber-mulch play areas to engineered wood fiber, the only other surface covering that would provide the necessary fall protection. The cost would likely increase, however, because of needed border changes and improved drainage, according to the district.

School Board members said last month that they would like to see recycled-tire products removed from playgrounds but noted the district has limited resources.

Council Member Lisa Bender said she feels strongly that it’s important to err on the side of caution, especially when carcinogens are involved.

Council Member Elizabeth Glidden supported the resolution but abstained on the vote that directed the finance department to work with the Park Board and school district to identify the cost of waste-tire removal. She said she thinks budget items like this usually need to be part of the budget process, adding that it’s a big decision on whether they want to devote city resources to assisting other jurisdictions.

Council Member Andrew Johnson said the motion doesn’t commit the City Council to any dollar amount and is consistent with past practices.

“It’s really easy for us to tell others what to do,” he said, “but this is really committing city money to where our mouths are.”

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Lakefront condo project finds resistance at Planning Commission A proposed five-story condominium building on East Calhoun Parkway is on hold.

CPM Development has paused a proposal for an 18-unit building at 3017, 3021 and 3025 E. Calhoun Parkway after an informal February meeting with the city’s Planning Commission.

“After listing to city comments we have decided to put the project on hold for now,” CPM co-founder Nick Walton said in an email.

Planning Commission President Matthew Brown said commissioners expressed concern about the project’s consistency with the Uptown Small Area Plan, which is a community plan to guide future development. The

plan says new construction should match the prevailing neighborhood character. Following the plan’s adoption in 2008, the Calhoun Parkway site was down-zoned so less height and density would be allowed as of right.

The site shares an alley with single-family homes, duplexes, three-story buildings and the six-story Edgewater condominiums at the north end of the block.

Brown said commissioners made a couple of comments about the site’s location inside the shoreland overlay district, which requires a city-issued conditional use permit to build above two-and-a-half stories near the water.

But the main concerns related to the small area plan, he said.

The East Calhoun Community Organization formally opposed the plans in a letter submitted to city officials last month. The letter states that even though the new condos would stand between two multifamily buildings, they would be located in the most visible part of the Chain of Lakes.

“We all know the power of precedence, such that if this project were to be approved there would [be] no way to stop further such tall developments on the parkways surrounding all of our lakes,” states the letter.

When asked whether the project would undergo a redesign, Walton said he had no updates on potential next steps. He said CPM still controls the site.

Suspended plans for The Parkway Residences at 3017-25 E. Calhoun Parkway called for 18 condominiums. Rendering by Snow Kreilich Architects

City construction closes permit at former Beek’s Pizza site Minneapolis closed construction permits on March 2 at 5336 Lyndale Ave. S. because there had been no progress for 180 days, a city spokesman said.

The site, formerly home to Beek’s Pizza and Diamond Lake Rental, was damaged in a fire in 2013 and later demolished. Property owner Bill Graham submitted plans to the city in 2014 to construct a three-story building with retail on the ground floor and residential units above.

Some construction has taken place at the site.

According to city Media Relations Coordinator Casper Hill, the structure that’s there is considered to be a vacant building and in “nuisance condition” as defined by city ordinance.

The city will issue an order to raze and remove the building within 30 days, he said in an email. The matter is considered closed if the property owner follows through on compliance.

Graham could appeal with order within 21

days. If he does not take action, the city could proceed to bid the demolition and assign it to a contractor.

Graham said in an email that the primary delay in construction stems from a delay in the transfer of title from the previous ownership.

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ailing instructor Madison Hobbs had a clear view of all her beginning sailors, working in teams of three to balance and maneuver their 8-foot training vessels, powered only by the steady winds coming off Lake Calhoun.

In one boat, kids chatted excitedly, working to angle their sail just right, trying not to tip over.

In another, two boys excitedly and repeatedly yelled, “Look at our seaweed collection!”

Hobbs — keeping an eye on the rest of her would-be rookie regatta racers — grinned at the boys, who were proudly holding up lake plants with their bare hands.

Hobbs continued resetting buoys the students had inadvertently knocked over when they drifted off course or failed in their early attempts at turning.

Not far off sat 8-year-old Ryan, keeping a strong grip on both sides of his sailboat and watching, wide-eyed, as his mates attempted to control their dinghy, which began to shoot across the water in straight line, its sails suddenly full of wind.

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It was Ryan’s third day of sailing lessons at the Lake Calhoun Sailing School in Minneapolis, so he was still gaining the confidence needed to become a fearless sailor.

Later in the boathouse, Ryan’s apprehension disappeared as he excitedly told his fellow sailors just how fast he’d gone, like a storybook hero, regaling his comrades with tales of adventure.

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By Susan Schaefer

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Minnesota Citizens for the Arts lobbyist Larry Redmond addresses the crowd.

MCA Board Member Carla McGrath of Highpoint Center for Printmaking.

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THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE CREATIVE ARTS IN MINNEAPOLIS ASTONISHES. Estimated at over $4.5 billion in sales, or eight times that of Minneapolis’ sports sector according to the 2015 Creative Vitality Index (CVI), an economic measure used by the city, it has earned our region a lofty place as a national creative mecca. ¶ Behind such stunning statistics toil humans whose creativity and innovation fuel this so-called creative class, dubbed by author Richard Florida. Frequently laboring for the sheer love of their craft, many visual and performing artists, directors, inventors and innovators produce from an inner creative core more likely fueled by passion than personal gain. These makers are marked by an almost holy drive to create – and when their artistry and intent collide, it often yields something extraordinary in its wake.

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From Cook to Rock, Fillmore to Marshall and most counties in between, on this last Tuesday of February, the almost 1,000-strong Minnesotan arts advocates came, packing Minnesota History Center’s 3M Auditorium, overflowing into the hallways, commiserating, chattering, collaborating, networking and schmoozing with colleagues old, new and renewed. They are the Creative Warriors who triumphantly paint a human face on Minnesota’s Creative Class, united in the battle to maintain the eternally tenuous funding for the arts.

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The day typically begins with a rally and orientation training for all registrants, who have been pre-grouped into teams according to one of the state’s 11 formally designated arts regions and multiple legislative districts. Some register with a home address, some by the address of their institution.

This year, the team representing South Minneapolis and Uptown was labeled CC, championed by longtime MCA Board Member Carla McGrath, executive director of Highpoint Center for Printmaking, a foot soldier in this annual battle to maintain the gains achieved by such grassroots activism. CC team boasted almost 60 individuals from various organizations.

Philip Brunelle, “headmaster” of VocalEssence; Art Space’s communications director, Tio Aiken; textile artist, Marjorie Fedyszyn; new Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association Executive Director

Dameum Strange; and Kate Smith of the Minneapolis Institute of Art were part of this group who live and/or work in the legislative districts 61A and 61B of Arts Region 11.

Chanting this year’s mantra, “Please protect the 47% of the Arts Legacy Fund and maintain the General Fund,” crowds gathered by section to meet in carefully orchestrated sessions with their representatives and senators.

CC had fruitful sessions with Reps. Paul Thissen and Frank Hornstein and Sen. Scott Dibble, all Democrats who fervently support the arts. The meetings were mostly lighthearted, mutual admiration fests with participants sharing poignant stories of what the arts contribute to the overall quality of life. Visual artist, Marcia Hoffmans, earnestly explained the enrichment her work provides children, while a member of One Voice Mixed Chorus emotionally described how participation in the chorus afforded much needed support after a vicious physical attack.

Such personal accounts provide qualitative examples that greatly augment the metrics.

The interaction between the lawmakers and their citizens is highly reciprocal. Rep. Thissen shared that his wife had been a longtime board member of Sewell Ballet. Rep. Hornstein serenaded the group with a hilarious Bob Dylan imitation, proving he, too, is a member of the creative club. Not to be outdone, Sen. Dibble had prepared homemade chocolate chip pies, sincerely counseling all to “continue to find joy,” while acknowledging that “our democracy is definitely under attack and we need to keep resisting.”

The numbers have legs The annual Minnesota economic impact generated by artists and creative workers and nonprofit arts and culture organizations is $2 billion.

These figures are separate from the sales figures we quote at the top of the column. They provide powerful incentive for continued government support for the arts.

Equally vital to our senators and representatives is the $222 million in revenue generated for the state through taxes and artist spending. Such numbers should guarantee continued bipartisan support for both state general fund and Legacy Amendment fund support. In plain terms the state revenues outpace state spending on the arts.

In business parlance: Minnesota government receives a healthy return on invest, ROI, for every penny it invests in creative economy.

The reach and equality of the distribution of these funds is also important for legislators from both houses on both sides of the aisle. Arts funding in Minnesota is brilliantly managed by the tag team of the regional arts councils and the Minnesota Arts Board, ensuring that Arts Funding reaches each of the state’s 87 counties through 11 regional districts. While there is an obvious concentration in the Metro Area, every nook and cranny of greater Minnesota is well represented in the arts and culture mix.

These facts and more are the highlight of this year’s event unveiled in the 2017 Creative Minnesota report. The report is updated every two years as part of a long-term endeavor to collect and report data on the creative sector.

This year’s report both quantifies and qualifies this assessment. It’s a worthwhile read cover-tocover to more deeply appreciate the magnitude of this achievement.

Historical context: unlikely bedfellows Minnesota’s truly robust public-private support for arts and culture is unique in the United States.

The facts, figures and historical context speak directly to the impetus for this column: “Behind such stunning statistics toil humans whose creativity and innovation fuel this creative class.”

Laws do not spring into being by themselves.

Humans produce the arts and have created the saga of our exceptional funding.

And the history of the infamous Legacy Amendment reveals an unlikely coalition of individuals who saw an equally unlikely public/ private opportunity: Artists and anglers.

Sheila Smith, executive director of MCA, recounts the peculiar story of the groundwork for the passage of the Legacy Amendment, formally called the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund in our state’s constitution: “The search for dedicated funding for the arts began in 1991 when Senator Richard Cohen convened a working group to search for a dedicated source of funding for the arts.” It wasn’t until the early 2000s that the hunters and anglers for land conservation proposed the idea of dedicated revenue in a constitutional amendment.

A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT AND FUNDRAISER This spring, the Birchwood Café hosts an exhibition of Creative Class columnist Susan Schaefer’s portraits of firefighters from Minneapolis Fire Station 7 in Seward.

The exhibition features a mix of portraits and still lifes shot in 2015.

During its run, Birchwood plans to host a fundraiser for Firefighters for Healing, a nonprofit that supports burn victims and their families.

“Profiles in Courage: Intimate Portraits” runs March 20–May 21 at Birchwood Café, 3311 E. 25th St. The opening reception and Firefighters for Healing benefit is 5 p.m.–8 p.m. March 23. The event will feature guest speakers and an auction.

In 2004, the arts were attached to the bill, and finally in 2008, after significant lobbying from MCA, the amendment passed the legislature on the same day the MCA had more than 500 people come to the Capitol for Arts Advocacy Day. Smith states that legislative-level success came from three important ingredients: a longtime commitment to arts advocacy in Minnesota, which has created a great pool of grassroots activists who jump in when asked; MCA’s brilliant lobbyist, Larry Redmond, who outmaneuvered and out strategized all opponents; and a great legislative champion, Sen. Dick Cohen, who as chair of the Finance Committee worked tirelessly to gain the support of his peers.

What the anglers began, the artists, artisans, administrators, lawmakers and lobbyists continue, as was evidenced by the overwhelming turnout for this year’s event. And as long as there is pigment for paint, bulbs for stage lighting, clay for sculptures and ink for writing, these creative warriors will wage on, earning our region a lofty place as a national creative mecca.

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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro posing inside Bleak House with a sculpture of Sammael from “Hellboy.” Photo courtesy Insight Editions

A monster of a collection Guillermo del Toro’s amazing, colossal obsessions

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Maybe there’s a pop culture-obsessed collector in your life: the coworker whose cubicle is guarded by a brigade of fully articulated action figures; the friend whose comic book library has engulfed the home office; the neighbor who keeps a closet full of “Star Trek” regalia.

Few of those fanatics could match appetite and acquisitive resources of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, whose Bleak House in Los Angeles is a walk-through wunderkammer dedicated to some of the oddest and most grotesque expressions of both fine art and genre entertainment. Del Toro recently agreed to temporarily part with a small portion of his horror, science fiction and fantasy cache — just, oh, 500 objects or so — and in March it was installed at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

“Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters” makes the case that Bleak House and its collections are the font of del Toro’s creativity — not just a reflection of obsessions that date to his youth in Guadalajara, Mexico, but a man-made reservoir of ideas and inspiration. It is a counterpart to his illustrated journals, where the plots and imagery of his twilit big-screen fantasies first take shape.

There’s a dichotomy that splits the world of pop-culture fandom into collectors and creators, those who impulsively consume genre entertainments and those who produce them.

It’s a porous barrier; ’zines, fan-fiction and cosplay are just some of the ways that fans write their own storylines.

Like a geek colossus, del Toro straddles that

same divide.

The fanboy-turned-fan-favorite is known for movies that are often dark and always visually inventive, including “Pan’s Labyrinth” — a fable set in Franco-era Spain that earned del Toro Academy Awards nominations for best screenplay and best foreign language film — and the supernatural adventure series “Hellboy,” based on Mike Mignola’s comic books.

“At Home with Monsters” debuted in August at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and next travels to Art Gallery of Ontario, but it originated in the mind of Mia Director Kaywin Feldman. Inspiration hit mid-workout; Feldman was reading a 2011 New Yorker profile of del Toro while training on an elliptical machine and was taken with reporter Daniel Zalewski’s characterization of the director as someone who drew inspiration from both Alfred Hitchcock and Hieronymus Bosch — but perhaps more from the latter.

Just as Bleak House mixes fine art with movie props and pop-culture collectibles, the Mia exhibition is peppered with pieces from the museum’s collection, each selected by del Toro.

In some cases, it works.

Philip Guston’s 1942 painting of four costumed trick-or-treaters, “Halloween Party,” is a delight in any context, and here it’s hung salon-style in a room dedicated to del Toro’s childhood. Just across the way is a family photo of the director as a child, dressed as a monster and crouched over playmate.

The bold linework of a German Expressionist print harmonizes nicely with the original comic book art scattered throughout the exhibition.

Del Toro has a connoisseur’s eye for cartooning, displaying several drawings by Moebius (the nom de plume of French artist Jean Giraud); horror-specialist Bernie Wrightson’s chiaroscuro drawings for an illustrated edition of “Frankenstein”; and even a cell from “Gertie the Dinosaur,” the pioneering 1914 animated short hand drawn in cartoonist Winsor McCay’s inimitable clear-line style.

But some of the juxtapositions are awkward.

Bleak House in Los Angeles houses part of Guillermo del Toro’s massive collection.

Submitted photo

Among the Mia pieces selected by del Toro is Francis Bacon’s 1953 painting “Study for Portrait VI,” part of the artist’s so-called “screaming popes” series and a dark jewel of the museum’s collection. It makes everything in its proximity seem a little silly by comparison, including a full-size model of the Pale Man monster from “Pan’s Labyrinth.”

The horror of Bacon’s painting is ambiguous, creeping toward existential dread, and that gives it its power. Fantasy artist Wayne Barlowe’s magma-seared hellscape (from his book “Barlowe’s Inferno,” itself a sought-after collectible) unsettles with the specificity of its gory details, but Bacon’s screaming pope stabs at a deeper place.

There are moments like this in “At Home with Monsters,” when a door opens and the ghouls of the del Toro-verse dissolve in the daylight. Bleak House is best experienced with the door locked and the blinds drawn.

IF YOU GO: What: Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters When: Through May 28 Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art Info: artsmia.org, 870-3000

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SUMMER CAMP GUIDE * 2017 All Lake Calhoun Sailing School classes are held Mondays through Thursdays. On Fridays throughout the summer, sailing students at all levels are encouraged to participate in the popular Twin Cities Youth Sailing regatta series, with coaching provided by the sailing school.

Other sailing clubs involved in the series include the Lake Minnetonka Sailing School, Wayzata Community Sailing Center, Lake Harriet Yacht Club, Saint Croix Sailing School and White Bear Sailing School.

Learning it — sometimes it was scary. That’s the point: You think you can’t do it. But the instructors are watching you, and they’ve got you.

— Madison Hobbs, sailing instructor

‘It’s like driving a car’

Sailing students who are age 7 to 11 start out by using small, easy-to-handle 8-foot dinghies known as optis, short for optimists, in summer classes with Lake Calhoun Sailing School.

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Getting started One of the keys to learning sailing is to start with a small boat.

At Lake Calhoun Sailing School, the beginner craft of choice is an easy-handling sailboat known as an “opti” — short for “optimist.” These small sailing dinghies can be used to train ages 7 to 15 and can hold up to three kids for lessons.

The school’s Beginning Optimist class serves as an introduction to sailing course, with a structured curriculum that starts with demonstrations on land followed by near-shore boating with instructors in motorized safety boats close by.

Students — who must be able to swim and tread water in life jackets to sign up — go out on the water on their first day of class.

During the first week, kids work on boathandling skills, safety, sailing upwind and downwind and basic sailing maneuvers.

As they build confidence, students — depending on wind conditions — gradually move farther from shore where they practice their skills and participate in drills and games.

Students also learn about rigging, boat handling, knot tying and water safety. They get to paddle the boats around without sails and also learn how to right a boat when it tips over.

Higher-level courses allow students to move into racing, including rules, strategies and tactics.

Harnessing the wind can be incredibly fun, but it isn’t necessarily intuitive at first.

Turning involves not a steering wheel, but instead a smooth shift of the sail’s boom from one side of the boat to the other.

And that involves remembering to duck, said 10-year-old Corinne, a second-year student at the sailing school, who took the Beginning Optimist class last summer.

When she first started out, that part of the process was a challenge.

Today her calm demeanor around the opti makes it seem doubtful that she could be caught off guard by anything.

“It’s like driving a car across the water,” Corinne said of the smooth feel of the boat in motion.

However, sometimes that car might seem like it’s going a little too fast or the ride might feel a little too rough.

One group in Corinne’s class had a bit of trouble when their opti got off balance and took on some water.

“We’re going to sink!” the two students exclaimed as they tried to splash water out of their boat. With the help of their instructor — and the laws of physics — they didn’t sink,

and soon, their boat was cruising once again, the students quickly forgetting the trouble they’d had.

Hobbs, like most instructors here, learned how to sail through Lake Calhoun Sailing School, so she understood what the kids were feeling.

“Learning it — sometimes it was scary,” Hobbs recalled. “That’s the point: You think you can’t do it. But the instructors are watching you, and they’ve got you.”

Even though the biggest threat is usually nothing more than getting wet, there’s just something inherently nerve-wracking about falling unintentionally into a lake, even if you’re wearing a lifejacket, which all students are required to do.

Kids who sail learn to manage their emotions in an environment that feels perilous, but is actually quite safe, Hobbs said.

Safety is the No. 1 one priority for the school, and the instructors are well-versed in best practices and protocols.

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among the kids, instructors always group students so that each opti has at least one relatively experienced sailor. The students, although they get to control the optis, are always under constant supervision, including extra-close monitoring on windier days.

A lifelong love Members of the Calhoun Yacht Club established the Lake Calhoun Sailing School in 1989 so their kids would have a formal place to learn sailing.

Today the school now boasts a fleet of almost 50 optis, dozens of other sailing boats, a racing program and more than 800 students per year.

Although many people think of sailing as an expensive, unattainable hobby, school director Ted Salzman said the school works to change that perception by offering scholarships and working to strengthen community ties.

Learning sailing has been life-changing for many of the school’s instructors, and now they want to pass that passion on to others, Salzman said.

Indeed, some of the students Salzman taught

in 2002 have already come back as instructors.

While many of the instructors cite racing as one of the biggest lures of sailing, Salzman said the joy goes beyond that.

He likes the peaceful feeling he gets when he and friends or family are on a boat, drifting on a glass lake, with the sunset going down in the Twin Cities.

Sailing on the open water provides a different perspective on the nature world, he said. But it also offers a serenity — and a thrill — for those who learn to understand how the water and wind work around, and with, a sailboat.

“For those that like it, it becomes a part of who they are — who they define themselves as,” Salzman said. “It’s not just something they do.”

Lianna Matt is a Twin Cities journalist who loves traveling and meeting people on the job — even if she is a bit directionally challenged.

LAKE CALHOUN SAILING SCHOOL What: This Minneapolis-based sailing school gets kids out on the water on Day 1, gradually moving farther from shore when the kids are ready and conditions are right. Kids are encouraged to develop leadership and teamwork skills as they learn to navigate Lake Calhoun.

Ages allowed: 7–18. Evening adult and parent/child classes for ages 4–6 also are available, as well as classes for adults and groups.

Dates: Classes typically run on twoweek cycles from June 19 through Aug. 24.

Hours: Half-day Beginning Optimist classes run from 9 a.m.–noon and 1 p.m.–4 p.m. and can be combined with a supervised lunch to create a full day of activities.

Location: 3010 E. Calhoun Pkwy., Minneapolis Cost: Fees are $480 for a two-week Beginning Optimist session (eight full-day classes); a half-day option costs $260. Beginning 420 classes, which are geared toward ages 12 to 18 and use 14-foot boats, cost $445 for two weeks (eight full-day classes).

Parent-child classes cost $175 for four two-hour classes.

Students age 12 to 18 learn to sail using 420 boats at Lake Calhoun Sailing School. Larger than the optis used for younger kids, 420 boats mimic features of sailboats many times larger.

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SUMMER CAMP GUIDE * 2017

Little Day Camp on the Prairie Local history camps bring the old days to life for kids, who mysteriously learn to enjoy chores and the rustic nature of pioneer life — at least for a day Aleigha Ausman signs a guestbook at Pioneer Park, a day camp that immerses kids in pioneer life. Photos by Abbie Burgess

By Abbie Burgess

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or my best friend and me, growing up in the ’90s, it wasn’t enough for us to just read about Kirsten Larson, the American Girl, and Little House on the Prairie books.

We wanted to live it!

So, in the summers, we dressed up in calico dresses and checkered sunbonnets sewn by our mothers and headed to camp at Minnesota Pioneer Park, a living history village in Annandale, about an hour northwest of Minneapolis.

We wrote on slates in the one-room schoolhouse, played in a sod house, churned butter and sewed quilt squares in a real log cabin.

Even now, more than 20 years later, the smell of bacon frying in a cast iron skillet still sparks happy memories for me as I think of the cabin’s wood stove, crackling in the heat of July.

Today a new generation is busy building

memories at Pioneer Park’s day camps, held on select summer Wednesdays.

Volunteer camp coordinator Cheryl Antl has been guiding children ages 6 to 13 through authentic pioneer experiences for more than a decade.

I visited Pioneer Park last summer and witnessed her in action with a group of day campers.

First, she finished up a lesson in the camp’s one-room schoolhouse. Then, after letting the kids race each other once around the schoolhouse, she rounded them up to head back to the camp’s log cabin for lunch.

The absence of air conditioning on a sunny, 88-degree July afternoon was even more oppressive than I’d remembered it, but it didn’t deter the day’s six campers who were eager for an authentic historical experience.

A Pioneer education Antl runs the day camp for groups of up to 10 children with the help of one or two teenage helpers, usually former campers themselves.

“In the pioneer days, they had conversation at mealtimes. So let’s have a discussion,” Antl instructed while passing plates of baking powder biscuits, hand-churned butter, sliced ham, strawberries and carrots around the table.

An innocent conversation about the children’s pets turned into a count of how many wild animals their dogs and cats had caught.

Maybe, I thought, the tough realities of life aren’t so different, after all, for pioneer kids and kids of today?

The children were surprisingly well-behaved.

They seemed to grasp the responsibility of the demands of pioneer life. In fact, parents might be surprised by one of the pioneer experiences

the campers joyfully embraced: Chores!

“Most of these kids have never washed a dish by hand,” Antl said. “These are really simple things, but they love doing it.”

Indeed, not a whisper of complaint escaped any of the kids when it came time to wipe down the table or, later, carry heavy buckets of water.

“I think that looks good,” said 9-year-old Nora Ausman, as she swept a wood floor, having redone a spot she’d missed in her initial rush to complete the job.

With chores completed, the campers gathered around a metal washtub in the yard to try out cleaning clothes on a washboard.

After that, they were ready to take a tour of the re-created main street of Pioneer Park, just one part of the park’s 24 buildings furnished with artifacts to showcase life in the 1800s.

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turn, including vintage seed packets in the General Store and blue-and-white checked voting booth curtains in the City Hall.

A smell, that can be described only as “old,” emanates from the buildings, mingling with the fresh country air, pouring in from open windows and doors.

The campers were most excited to see the jail cells, and argued over who would get to play the sheriff.

Nora was eager to take on the role, and pointed out that — in pioneer days — women unfairly didn’t get to be sheriffs, and they also couldn’t vote.

Nora attended the day camp with her sisters, Aleigha, 11, and Kaitlyn, 6.

Making pioneer camp a family affair was the way to go for Stacy Engel’s kids, too.

She brought her daughters, Josie and Elizabeth, who are homeschooled, and her two nieces.

Engel said the authentic schoolhouse was one of her daughters’ favorite buildings in the park, along with the Finnish church and the 1902 farmhouse.

Living history Pioneer Park was created in 1972 as a nonprofit educational museum, with historical buildings that date back as far as 1884. Furnishings include pioneer-style dishes on the shelves and animal pelts hanging from the walls.

They’re realistic — and quite rustic. And attendees of day camp are plunged into this lifestyle, with limited access to the camp’s lone modern building.

Parents can get in on the fun, too, with a self-guided tour — or, more likely, a child-led

tour — when it’s time for pickup after camp.

In the barn, Ivan, 12, and his sister, Reece, 7, demonstrated how to use a hand corn sheller machine.

“That was fun: I want to do more!” he said, adding that he wished he could have such a machine at home.

His mother, Laura Hartkopf of Maple Lake, is also interested in history. So when she found the day camp listed in a community-ed bulletin, she knew it would be a natural fit. In fact, it was such a good fit that 2016 marked her son’s fourth year of attending the camp.

Now in seventh grade, Ivan’s one of the oldest campers.

“I like the hands-on experience,” he said.

Other history camps

Cheryl Antl shares a midday meal with campers at Pioneer Park day camp, geared toward ages 6 to 13.

Pioneer Park isn’t the only historical day camp for Minnesota kids. Closer to the Twin Cities, Fort Snelling and Gibbs Farm in St. Paul and The Landing in Shakopee all offer immersive historical experiences, including some for kids as young as 4.

Claire Davis once attended a variety of historical day camp programs at the Gibbs Farm in St. Paul.

Now 16 and a junior in high school, she dons a long dress and apron again as an intern at Gibbs Farm, helping young campers make corn-husk dolls, perform skits and try on the schoolhouse dunce cap.

“Dressing up is the best part,” said Davis, whose favorite camp theme is Victorian Days.

“A lot of the campers dress up, too, and it’s so cute.”

Davis began expressing interest in history

after reading the Little House and American Girl book series. Her mom found the Gibbs Farm for her daughters to attend when Claire was 7 and her sister, Emma, was 4. After Claire graduated from camper eligibility in sixth grade, she still returned each year to serve as an intern.

She enjoys the authentic farm setting, complete with garden crops and animals.

“It’s a place where you’re in the middle of prairie grasses and you forget you’re in St. Paul,” she said.

Davis’ mother, Cara Bailey of St. Paul, pointed out that Gibbs Farm incorporates learning about the Dakota people and their language, not just the European settlers.

“The value,” she said, “is in giving them a

chance to participate in living history in the place where they live.”

Davis said the kids learn by doing.

“It’s real; it’s not like school,” she said.

“History is fun.”

The day-camp experience has made such an impact on Davis that she hopes to minor in history when she goes to college.

Her plans also include returning to Gibbs Farm to volunteer in the summers, helping a new generation of children build memories of wood smoke (and, perhaps, frying bacon) that will last for decades to come.

Abbie Burgess is a Twin Cities freelance writer and lifestyle blogger at thepinkpaperdoll.com.

HISTORY CAMPS Historical re-enactment camps immerse campers in a different era, allowing them to see it firsthand — not sketched out in the pages of a history book or school text.

Help your kids find their own Little Day Camp on the Prairie experiences at these Minnesota sites:

Fort Snelling, St. Paul

Gibbs Farm, St. Paul

Little House in the Big Fort Day Camp — inspired by the Little House series — caters to ages 7–11. Day camps run for four days from 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Dates not sold out at press time included July 11–14, July 25–28 and Aug. 8–11. Cost is $250 per camper.

Learn more about other Minnesota Historical Society sites at mnhs.org. historicfortsnelling.org

The Landing, Shakopee

Summer day-camp programs for ages 4–13 are offered through the Ramsey County Historical Society.

Choose from Pioneer PeeWees for ages 4–5, Pioneer Kid for ages 6–10, Gibbs Girl for girls ages 6–10 and Digging History for ages 11–13.

All camps run from 9 a.m.–1 p.m.

Tuesdays–Thursdays and cost $99, except for Pioneer PeeWees, held from 9:30–11:30 a.m. on select Wednesdays at a cost of $19. rchs.com

Pioneer Park, Annandale

Many day camps with a historical focus are offered through the Three Rivers Park District, including Little House on the River Camp for kids ages 6–12, Civil War Camp for ages 10–15, Adventures of Tom Sawyer Camp for ages 6–12 and Advanced Little House on the River Camp for ages 10–15. Camp, which cost $160, are held from 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Tuesdays through Thursdays. threeriversparks.org

One-day camps for ages 6–13 give kids a chance to experience the daily life of a pioneer farm child. Offered from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. on select summer Wednesdays — June 21, 28; July 5, 12, 19; August 2, 9, 16), camp costs $43 per child and includes two snacks, water and lunch. pioneerpark.org

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SUMMER CAMP GUIDE * 2017

Students — such as Donovan Mack, pictured — learn how to take pictures with real cameras, not mobile phones, at teen photography camps at Mpls Photo Center. Photo by Will Swanson

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Teens can learn the art of photography, photo editing and even digital printing as part of the Mpls Photo Center’s summer camp programming

By Lianna Matt

“Y

ou don’t have to play the guitar, you know,” the photographer said to 15-year-old Donovan Mack.

Sitting on a tall white box, Mack dangled his feet idly as he plucked notes from the instrument.

“I like to,” he said, and the soft melody continued as Will Swanson, also 15, moved around him, snapping his camera, trying to capture different shadows and angles.

Just a few minutes ago, Mack had been hamming it up for the camera, playing with an empty picture frame, as part of their challenge to take portraits indoors.

In another part of the studio, two teenage girls were goofing around with their own photo shoot, giggling, and quipping, “cha-ching!” as they snapped portraits. Nearby, another pair of girls were discussing how they wanted to use the studio’s props for their pictures.

It was all part of a fun-filled morning at the Mpls Photo Center’s summer photography camp for teens.

On this particular day, all the campers were rotating through five different stations to experiment with different lighting set ups And that’s actually kind of a big deal: In the smartphone age — in which nearly anyone can attempt art photography and photo editing right on their mobile devices — learning the fundamentals of professional photography (with “real” cameras, which are required here) has become a special thing indeed.

Beyond snapshots Kids in the center’s half-day, weeklong photography camps first learn how to use their cameras and settings, then they move on to composition, angles, light and even motion, all with a goal of capturing seemingly ordinary things in quite extraordinary ways.

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You take a photo and get a captured feeling. It’s a moment, an experience, that you can re-experience.

— Rosie Letofsky, a camper learning photography at Mpls Photo Center

Then they move onto editing and printing, including instruction in Adobe’s Lightroom software, one of the gold standards of professional portrait photographers.

And it all ends with a showcase, featuring students’ work — including self-portraits, motion shots and landscapes — for friends and family to see.

During a camp last summer, props were scattered throughout the center’s spacious warehouse — including professional studio equipment, a sofa and a giant fan one pair used give a wind-swept look to their portraits, to name a few. Campers set a soundtrack by DJing with their favorite musical genres, including pop, country and instrumental.

Richard Guttmann, the instructor of the camp, made the rounds as pairs of students tried out different equipment, giving suggestions on lighting, angles, lenses and composition.

“If you want it to look like a tall angle,” he advised one camper, “I would shoot from below for that extreme perspective play off.”

Finding their vision The different scenarios — plus the campers’ imaginations — created vastly different

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Will Swanson (above and bottom right) and Donovan Mack (left) practiced the art of portrait taking at the Mpls Photo Center’s camp for teens last summer. Photos by Donovan Mack and Will Swanson

portraits and self-portraits in the end. There was a shot of a teen boy, jumping up from a couch, pushed onto the set as a prop; a closeup of a pensive teen girl; yet another girl, looking out from underneath an umbrella, its stem dividing her face perfectly in half between light and shadow.

“They all come up with their own concepts,” Guttmann said. “I always tell them: It’s all about your vision. Nothing is really wrong.”

One of the guitar photos Swanson took of Mack was Guttmann’s favorite of the day — a black and white close-up of the guitar with the fretboard fading away like a road in the distance.

Swanson would get to show off the image, along with his other favorites, during the last day of summer camp in the concluding exhibition.

Editing, printing, discovery Although the Mpls Photo Center boasts both Apple computers and Epson printers as well as one of the only public darkrooms left in Minnesota, its summer camps are less about the technical process and more about the creative journey and the tools photographers can use to bring ideas to life.

“Before [digital] there was so much emphasis on the technical, the equipment and the processing.” said Jeff Harrington, the director of the center. “Now that time and energy and effort to go into creativity.”

At camp, only about 15 minutes of each half-day is reserved for lecturing and examples.

The rest — at least 75 percent — is devoted to taking photos, followed by a half-hour or so reserved for uploading and editing images. (The only exception is the last day when the campers take more time to do their final edits, printing and set up for their exhibitions.)

With 10 kids attending this particular camp session, it was easy to find may different photography styles and viewpoints. But the campers all agreed photography allowed them see the world in different ways.

“The biggest thing,” said 15-year-old camper Rosie Letofsky, “is you take a photo and get a captured feeling. It’s a moment, an experience, that you can re-experience.”

Lianna Matt is a Twin Cities journalist who loves traveling and meeting people on the job — even if she is a bit directionally challenged.

TEEN PHOTOGRAPHY CAMP In these weeklong, half-day camps, ages 12 to 16 learn — from professional photographer Richard Guttmann — how to control camera functions and capture photos in a fun, hands-on way. They also receive instruction in Adobe’s Lightroom software and digital printing, all culminating in a showcase featuring students’ work for friends and family to see.

Ages: 12–16 Dates: Five-day camps are offered the weeks of June 12, 19, 26; July 10, 24; and Aug. 8. Participants can choose from morning or afternoon sessions. Previous photography experience isn’t required. Students must bring their own digital single-lens reflex (DSLR), mirrorless or compact digital cameras.

Hours: 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. or 1:30 p.m.–5 p.m.

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Southwest Journal Poetry Project

Spring Poetry A MILD WINTER, as Garrison Keillor so often reminded us, unsettles the Minnesotan soul. Maybe that’s why we received such a wide-ranging poetic miscellany: owls and cranes and Burger King, searching souls, settled ones and King James. This issue marks the 11th anniversary of the Southwest Journal Poetry Project. Thanks to all the poets who have contributed to these pages and all the readers who have enjoyed them!

— Doug Wilhide is the poet laureate of Linden Hills and poetry editor of the Southwest Journal

They vaporized and turned to light.

Then through the window glass they floated, (A magic trick that went un-noted).

And up they went into the sky, To join what’s gone, I know not why.

Owl Thoughts Laurie Lykken

Who can resist falling in love with an owl: that large eyed bird that doesn’t flock with others of its kind and instead seeks solitude to enable embracing the odd owlish schedule of sleeping days and hunting nights, on wings dressed in stealth feathers?

Mice, beware! You may think you are hidden.

But the owl’s large eyes see you scampering in the shadows of a moonlit field, a tasty treat, a just reward.

And from our fire-warmed cabin, we do not mourn you, mice. Instead, we cheer the owl on.

Southernmost Beach, Key West Doug Wilhide

He is the transparence of the place in which he is and in his poems we find peace. — Wallace Sevens The elderly gentleman shriveled and wrinkled under his well-browned skin walked out on the beach and set about setting himself up.

He wore a white fedora with a purple feather in it, a sparkling purple tutu and a pair of very fine white-feathered angel’s wings.

He laid out his towel on his chair, shifted it a couple times to align with the sun and where the sun would be took off the tutu slid out of the angel’s wings and stretched out… keeping the fedora on so as not to be, before God and everyone, completely naked.

Lake Harriet March 20 Joe Alfano

Two runners birds released dash from the starting point of their car and disappear into darkness.

A giant just below the horizon peeks out.

Tiny intense streaks of light bounce off the ice speckled path - for a few bright seconds stars and comets line my trajectory.

Migration in February Carolyn Light Bell

We trek westward across Interstate 80, while overhead chatter thousands of Sandhill cranes, crocheting designs, merging at the North Platte River, and migrating toward summer homes.

They dip to fatten up in cornfields, and rise again to roll and billow like seaweed in the surf, undulating, separating off, flowing back together in a constantly shifting tableau, clouds of grace and glory.

Who, how, and in what way do they communicate?

Who says change direction?

Who streaks on ahead, a slender torpedo splitting open the sky— Mysterious patterns.

Life Elizabeth Weir

I am the nipple that suckles the newborn.

I burst through the bud’s winter cladding.

I thrust eggs into earth’s warm womb and bow the light in a rainbow’s curve.

Where Stuff Goes When It Goes Away Dave Griffin

I wish I wish I wish I knew, In which direction my glasses flew.

Perhaps they’re hiding with my keys, The ones I lost in ’93.

But I suspect that in the night,

I am the pollen dance on the beehive’s sill.

I billow the sheets on the washing line.

I spin summer on long skeins of silk and plump the apple’s flesh on the bough.

I am a hazy sky, beaded with calling geese.

I stipple the woodland crimson and ochre.

I tug fallen leaves into wormholes and sink the sap into drowsy roots.

I burrow deep, as the sun’s arc shallows.

I creep mycelia into the red oak’s cambium, and fashion crystals on December’s breath.

I am the sigh that parts a dying man’s lips.

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King James James P. Lenfestey

“…fat enough, his cloathes being ever made large and easie….”

Namesake! How I hated your silly reign, your lazy corpulence descended upon me as I was young and easy under the apple boughs freighted with your common name.

And yet, you birthed the King James Version of America, “The wisest fool in Christendom,” maintained the golden age of plays.

You remain the King that made the ancient Hebrew Bible sing in English, pleasing God’s ear and mine own, and for eternity the swollen lips of Southern babblers and the congressman who testified, “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it’s good enough for me.” The good ‘ol KJV.

Crowned King (of Scotland) at thirteen months!

Me crowned your name at birth, my reign too now trundles to a close, my offspring, rhymes and off rhymes, trailing radiant plumes (to quote, who else, myself), a “large and easie” girth settled like a swale around these latest riddled years. As I lie lazy in the leavings of an orchard’s russet dreams, the songs your psalms sing still thrill these failing ears.

At 33, I saw him (or her) on a walk He fled down an alley, not willing to talk But I didn’t get this far by being unclever It’s not the same as Wisdom, but it’ll do as a leveler I doubled back and trapped him against concrete and brick But he had a knife, and I just a stick.

He stabbed me three times with a flick of his wrist And fled before I could ask “what’s the trick To living a life of wonder and whim And finding oneself and all that schtick?”

At age 37, the bastard was quicker than ever But I’d set a trap, and he took a header Into a puddle of kerosene and gas.

With a match strike I asked: Did he have any last words, this Wisdom, for me?

But before he could speak I was warming my hands

Now 39, I feel bad I did it.

He might have said things that would’ve caused me to get it.

But Wisdom isn’t the only master There’s still kindness, and courage, and justice and prudence.

ice-bound and dry under gray-bellied clouds, stitched tight and gasping?

Here the dried beans cling to their pods afraid of the fall to earth, uncertain of survival, much less the hope of resurrection.

Who am I now after so many small deaths?

I am here, hands ready for the soil.

There’s still 40, I hope, and a few more chances To dance to a music that isn’t exactly a sound So much as the ground and the sky all around.

Dementia Doubts Doug Wilhide

Inside I Am Yoga Sheryl Erickson

Class Reunion John O’Connor

Where I will not return, and will not walk; Where I will not listen, nor will I talk; Where I will not be present, not even in spirit, Being neither there nor anywhere near it — There you can have your event.

I am old. I am grumpy. I am a bore.

I am even more of a bore Than I was before Back in those long-winded days of yore.

This is your event, not mine.

Please say something meaningful about time.

The day’s surface scrabbling Tugs of not-quite-war are quiet.

My body feels buoyed My brain attempts intervention “What is that?”

“Explain!”

But something inside says, Ahhhh And I wrap myself In Ahhhh.

I am a well of pure water, Unfathomable I am deepest darkest blue.

And I am alive with currents.

When I look out I see Clear air cracking open.

And when I look in I feel Currents stirring.

And I am not thirsty.

And then he began to think That perhaps he had never thought Really, that deeply, really, or that well — That it had all been some kind of…

Delusion, a mental mirage, a lie…

Though it wasn’t and it hadn’t been He thought, on his better days.

Burger King John O’Connor

Beatriz and Virgilio Work at the Burger King.

I see them when I go.

I hang out. Do my thing.

I like Virgilio — He has good manners — But there is no Inferno Other than the burgers.

On Getting Older but Not Wiser

I like Beatriz — she is very kind — But every time I’m there I find That there is no Paradise Other than the French fries.

Adam Overland

I thought I saw Wisdom At age 27, A dim shadow in moonlight Not helped by sunglasses.

At 28, I turned a corner Saw him dancing with no music A loser, a loner — I walked on by and tossed him a quarter

Thirty came, and I entered a new place, Little lines on my face, near my lips and eyes, From smiling and crying and sometimes surprise.

But Wisdom is a brow furrow at best, Easily misconstrued as confusion, a test.

He thought I don’t think I can think anymore Not deeply anyway, anymore Not like before, he thought.

They are nice people. They never shout.

But when I asked for terza rima They threw me out.

Lago Atitlan in Winter Lisa Calame Berg

So here I am back to myself, my sleep-walking soul — waves at my feet.

Who have I been,

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Thousands of miles traveled, a musician finds her sound Local musician Jessica Manning releases debut album “What if I Run”

Singer-songwriter Jessica Manning developed a new, more modern sound for her first full-length release, “What if I Run,” out now. Submitted photo Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

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he grew up more than 4,000 miles from the Twin Cities, but Jessica Manning is at home in Minneapolis.

Just like her parents, the young singersongwriter, a native of Stockholm, Sweden, has travelled a long way to get where she is.

Her dad, a Virginia-born musician who grew up in Harlem and found himself touring in

Scandinavia, and her mother, a Californian who grew up in Chicago and studied abroad in the far-flung capital, met at a concert and put down roots. Manning spent the first six years of her life in Sweden before briefly studying in New York and moving to the Twin Cities, where she graduated from Southwest High School and calls the North Loop home.

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“It’s a weird story of how I ended up [in Stockholm], but, in a weird way, it’s a huge, huge part of who I am,” she said. “It’s really similar. It really is.”

In Minneapolis, Manning began to write original music at 16, songs she would perform for YouTube or at school talent shows.

Manning credits her dad for her musical roots, though there are gifts across her family — “a lot of travelers, a lot of creatives, a lot of curious folk,” she said — from a grandfather who dreamed of becoming an opera singer to a grandmother who was a world-class pianist.

Like her dad, Manning decided not to pursue a classical education.

“I was never the person who wanted to be taught music,” she said. “For me, as a songwriter, it makes it a little more fun because I’m just figuring things out without any rules in my head.”

Manning released her first original songs on an EP in 2013 and played the local café circuit.

The differences between the group of adult contemporary songs and her debut album that she dropped in February are striking. “What if I Run,” a collection of synth-laden R&B and electronic-tinged pop tracks, sounds more like English singer Jessie Ware, Sweden’s Little Dragon or local veteran Aby Wolf. Manning drew inspiration from “Coloring,” one of the first tunes from singer-songwriter Kevin Garrett. The song, with its similarly productiondriven sound that straddles both pop and R&B, had a modern quality that Manning wanted to make her own.

“I think the most difficult thing for a musician, and maybe any artist, is to figure out how

to make it ‘you,’” she said.

Last year, Manning and guitarist Zach Brose enlisted Northeast Minneapolis-based producer Brett Bullion (Bad Bad Hats, Lizzo, etc.) to help bring her vision for the album to life. The result is a thoroughly modern-sounding album whose layers of production complement the best of Manning’s charismatic voice. Standout tracks like “Red Birds” and “Homestead” combine the rich tones of Manning’s silky lower register with an airy, emotional atmosphere and support from her band.

After kicking off a mini Midwest tour in Duluth, Manning will play Nicollet Mall’s Dakota Jazz Club on Saturday, March 11 with Lady Lark. The relatively new Minneapolisbased group, fronted by singer Taylor Harris, combines the past three decades of R&B and pop into its soulful tunes.

Manning will also perform at the 7th Street Entry on Sunday, March 19 as a special guest before local indie rockers Robat, who recently released their debut album, “Tiny.” Chalk, another local band, is also set to perform. Last fall, the band released a psychedelic, self-reflective album dubbed “Water.”

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Attainable We

By Mikki Morrissette

Being known versus knowing In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That’s probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We’re out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.

— Vera Rubin, groundbreaking astrophysicist who discovered evidence of dark matter in the 1970s (and who died in December 2016 at age 88)

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s a creative writer, I would love to think that the 85 billion humans who have lived on this planet over time are adding … consciousness … to the universe, person by person. If I were a sci-fi writer, I would use this scenario to explain why the universe is expanding. I’d make Vera Rubin the matriarchal goddess, reminding us that we have a long way to go to replace dark matter with lightness, ignorance with knowledge.

Of course, in real life, it might be nice to simply remember that there is more mystery to the way the universe works than there is certainty, to the power of ten.

Knowledge can be a warm thing. It can make us feel secure. It can make us feel superior. It can warn us of impending environmental doom (edge.ensia.com). It can attempt to thwart human rights and nationalistic disasters.

Biologist Rupert Sheldrake said in a video interview that he does not — contrary to my creative fantasy above — think our evolution of human consciousness is expanding. We are acquiring great quantities of information and data on a global level, he said, but we seem to be losing our ability to put them into any storytelling context, as traditional cultures

might do with elders.

“We are gaining in knowledge,” Sheldrake said, “but falling short in wisdom.”

A member of my Conscious Conversations circle at Lake Harriet Spiritual Center recently suggested that consciousness might not be something we have as much as something we participate in.

“It is not just about knowing but also about being known,” he said.

I’ve been ruminating over that idea since.

What are the women’s marches and the Black Lives Matter protests and the town hall gatherings to defend healthcare and the rallies for science and immigration rights but powerful statements to Be Known. We can share factual data with like-minded friends on Facebook or Twitter, but in the end, I believe it is not about convincing more people to share our knowledge that matters to us — though it helps — but the sense of safety that comes from believing we are being heard and seen.

Whether we’re concerned about transgender rights or Muslim bans or gun policies or media access or police brutality or water safety or sexual assault, what makes us fearful and threatened and angry is being misunderstood, ignored or outside the circle

of attention. (And many of us have not felt displaced from the ‘inner circle’ with these issues, and are now recognizing that we can no longer be complacent, but need to be part of the solution.)

It is collective thought — the emotional vibration of community — where we build movement. As local Humanist minister Rev. David Breeden put it recently, the marches of today are not led by one charismatic leader, like an Emma Goldman or Martin Luther King Jr., but by networks of concerned people joining together.

James Burke, who created and narrated the wonderful “Connections” BBC series decades ago, showed us in each episode how one idea leads to a group think leads to an innovation leads to an invention leads to a discovery leads to a new way of life. Whether it is scientific achievement or moral values, we feed together.

Our human mistake — at least our frustration — might be in thinking we can arrive in the same place. Even when we agree over basic standards of how to live in community and how to gain in intelligence, no two people share the same knowledge or the same story of how to be known.

As cognitive scientist Dan Sperber said

recently in an extensive interview on Edge. com: “Communication is not a replication system. When I communicate to you, you don’t get in your mind a copy of my meaning.

You’ll transform it into something else. You extract from it what’s relevant to you. It involves both understanding and misunderstanding. But even if you’re understanding me perfectly, your goal will not be to have a copy of what was in my mind, it will be to extract from it some thoughts of yours which will have been usefully informed by mine, but which will be relevant to you.”

Maybe “being known” is an imperfect science — and certainly knowledge is a group effort — but I do believe the opportunity of this current era is to remind us about the value of collective speech and the hum of interaction. It might be the best way for each of us to get to know ourselves at a deeper level: What do we care about? What motivates us? How do we feel in synchronicity with others?

And that, Vera Rubin might agree, could graduate us into the fourth grade.

Mikki Morrissette is developing the Attainable We website and book to explore the science and story of what connects us.

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“INDIGENESIS: INDIGENOUS FILMMAKERS, PAST AND PRESENT” According to Native American filmmaker and writer Missy Whiteman, “We are in the beginning of a new era in Native cinema.” In collaboration with the Walker Art Center, she presents “INDIgenesis,” a month-long series of films and talks showcasing the past and present of indigenous film. The series begins with a screening of the 1920 silent film “The Daughter of Dawn,” which features more than 300 members of the Comanche and Kiowa tribes, and culminates with a discussion from filmmakers Heather Rae and Cody Lucich, who will preview footage from “AKICITA,” their forthcoming documentary on Standing Rock in North Dakota.

Where: Walker Cinema at Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave. Cost: Select films are $10 ($8 Walker members, students and seniors); others are free

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“GLITCH ART IS DEAD” Glitch art is defined as the use of digital or analog errors, by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices, for aesthetic purposes. While the medium’s roots date back to the 1930s, the movement has exploded with the advent of the digital age.

In 2015, Aleksandra Pieńkosz and Zoe Stawska founded “Glitch Art Is Dead,” an exhibition and workshop series aimed at denying its title. This year’s installment is hosted by Gamut Gallery in Minneapolis, showcasing a wide array of glitch artworks from more than 90 artists spanning the globe. Additional events include an opening reception (March 11 from 7 p.m.–11 p.m.), glitch-art workshops (March 17–19) and a closing party with live performances curated by noise artist Alex Kmett (March 31 from 7 p.m.–11 p.m.).

Where: Gamut Gallery, 717 10th St. S. When: March 11–31 Cost: Free except exhibit opening ($5), closing ($10) and workshops ($35 for weekend pass) Info: gamutgallerympls.com

“CLASSICAL CONNECTIONS” It’s not every day cowboys share a stage with ballerinas. In “Classical Connections,” the Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota blends classical ballet with the gothic romance and an Americana classic. The three-part program features TCB’s homage to “Rodeo,” a 1942 ballet that was originally scored by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Agnes de Mille. The evening also includes an original, new classical ballet piece and the world premiere of “Frankenstein: The Monster Within,” an original work inspired by the Mary Shelley horror classic that eschews monsters in favor of exploring the novel’s more introspective themes.

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St. Patrick’s Day

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE Don your best green garb and grab a spot along the parade route on 5th Street or around Rice Park for this 51st-annual celebration of Irish heritage, complete with traditional bagpipers and Irish dancers.

Where: Wacouta St. to Rice Park along 5th St., St. Paul When: Friday, March 17 at noon Cost: Free Info: visitsaintpaul.com

35TH-ANNUAL IRISH CELEBRATION Take in performances by traditional Irish dancers, live Irish music from local and regional acts, Celtic vendors, Irish food, local and Irish beer, bagpipe bands and children’s crafts and entertainment during this family-friendly fest.

Where: Landmark Center, 75 W. 5th St., St. Paul When: Friday, March 17 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Cost: $7 for adults, $5 for kids (age 6-12) and seniors (over 65), kids under 5 free Info: visitsaintpaul.com

LUCKYPALOOZA Get lucky at this two-block street bash featuring live music and DJs, outdoor food stands, drinks, mechanical bull rides and tent parties hosted by Patrick McGovern’s Pub, Burger Moe’s and Cossetta.

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By Linda Koutsky

Watch out! — part 2

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n the last issue, I wrote about driving tips I learned at an AAA class. Distracted drivers are causing havoc on our roadways. In addition to not being one ourselves, we need to know how to stay away from them to stay safe. In one of the participatory exercises our class brainstormed a list of driving concerns.

They ranged from navigating road construction to dealing with aggressive drivers. But when someone shouted out “bicyclists,” everyone nodded their heads. So this week I thought I’d explore bike safety — for vehicle drivers.

We all know that Minneapolis ranks high in national bicycling and bike commuter statistics.

In fact, bike use has increased 73 percent since 2007. Part of that is because there are many more safe opportunities for bikers. We now have at least 129 miles of on-street bikeways and 97 miles of off-street bikeways. But even though that seems like a lot of miles, bikers are legally allowed to ride on any road. So we need to watch out for them to make sure we all get to our destinations safely.

The most dangerous time for bike riders is during the evening commute from 3 p.m.–6 p.m.

Even though it’s light longer, June is statistically the worst month for crashes. Eighty-four percent

Bike riders: • have all the rights and duties of other vehicles on the road.

• should travel with the flow of traffic.

• need to obey all signs and traffic signals.

• should travel as close as practicable to the right edge of the road.

• must signal turns and lane changes.

• may ride side-by-side.

Bikers are everywhere this winter and we’ll see even more as nice weather approaches.

Please watch out for them! Photo by Linda Koutsky

of crashes occur at intersections and 40 percent of bike-car crashes involve a driver failing to see (or yield to) a bicyclist. Even though some bicyclists don’t practice safe biking, most do. We need to watch out for them — at intersections, at dusk and in the dark of night.

Here are some rules and responsibilities for bicyclists and vehicle drivers:

• must have a front light and rear light or reflector at night.

Vehicle drivers:

• cannot enter or cross a bike lane to pass a vehicle on their right.

Bike lanes are for bikes. Leave some space.

Bikes are good. Imagine all the traffic we’d have if all the bikers were in cars! Thank a biker for alleviating traffic. Make sure you help them get to their destination safely. We’re all in this traffic together. So be tolerant and be careful.

We have several kinds of bike lanes in Minneapolis and they continue to evolve.

To learn about them, visit minneapolismn. gov/bicycles/index.htm.

For the opposite of bike safety, but a great movie about crazy bike messengers weaving through traffic, watch “Line of Sight” on Netflix.

• should expect to see bicyclists.

• need to look before they turn.

• need to leave a minimum of 3 feet when passing a bicyclist.

• have to look before opening their car doors.

• may not enter or cross a bike lane (except when turning).

LUNCH TIP Some of the best soup in town is served up right alongside bikes at the newly remodeled One on One Bicycle Studio and Café, 117 S. Washington Ave.

Mill City Cooks

Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market

CREAMY VEGETABLE SOUP WITH PANCETTA

By Mary Jane Miller

Red Table Meat Co. makes its salumi in Northeast. Submitted photo

Pancetta: Bacon’s Delicious Italian Cousin

M

ike Philips started Red Table Meat Co. three years ago, after lots of time traveling the world studying and tasting cured meats from famous salumieres. Where do I sign up, right?

Mike, who grew up in a rural farming community, was an award-winning chef and restaurant owner in the Twin Cities for decades, and from his dedication to local and sustainable agriculture rose Red Table Meat Co., located inside the Food Building in Northeast Minneapolis.

Pancetta is one of the award-winning

salumis (yes, “salumi” the Italian word for drycured pork, that encompasses salami, pancetta, ham and various other mouthwatering treats) that Mike and the rest of the Red Table Meat team bring to the Mill City Farmers Market on Saturdays year-round.

Closely related to bacon, pancetta is Italianstyle cured pork belly. It is often served thinly sliced as a cold cut or in thick slabs that can be cubed and used to replace oil or butter in soups, pasta sauces, salads and risotto. Unlike its famous cousin bacon, pancetta isn’t smoked. It’s cured with salt, spices and other aromatics.

INGREDIENTS 1 package Red Table Meat Co. pancetta, cubed into 1 inch pieces 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 clove garlic, chopped 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups coarsely chopped seasonal vegetables (this time of year, I love to use winter squash and turnips) 1 Yukon gold or white potato, peeled and coarsely chopped 1/2 cup broth (chicken or vegetable) or water 1 1/2 cups whole milk 1/4 teaspoon pepper METHOD In a medium pot, cook pancetta over medium heat until fat is rendered.

Remove pieces of cooked pancetta and set aside. Add onion and garlic. Stir to coat with fat. Add salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onions are softened but not brown, about 3 minutes.

Add potatoes and broth. Note: If your vegetables are hard and need more time to cook (like squash or other root

Mike creates his pancetta from sustainably raised heritage-breed hogs from Minnesota, which he buys whole and butchers. The resulting pork belly is cured with peppercorns and rosemary and aged for four weeks.

If you’re interested watching the process, the Food Building offers guided and self-guided tours every afternoon Tuesday through Friday.

Learn more on its website: foodbuilding.com.

Mike, like so many farmers market

vegetables), add them here. If they are tender (like zucchini, tomatoes or broccoli) add them for the last 5 to 7 minutes of cooking. Bring broth to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 15 minutes or until potatoes and other vegetables are very tender.

Add milk and pepper. Use an immersion blender to puree soup until very smooth. If you use a standard blender, blend it in batches and remove center plug from lid. Cover top with kitchen towel as hot soup can spurt out while blending.

Spoon into bowls and serve topped with a dollop of sour cream, croutons, popcorn, drizzles of olive oil, slivers of vegetables and/or chopped herbs, and, of course, the cooked pancetta.

vendors, loves to discuss his craft. You can get a chance to talk to Mike and the rest of his team at the upcoming Mill City Farmers Market winter markets on Saturday, March 11 and 25 inside the Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd St., from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the market you can also pick up pancetta and the other local ingredients you need for this delicious creamy vegetable soup!

— Jenny Heck

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Hop to it

By Carla Waldemar

W

hat Red Cow did for beef, Red Rabbit proposes to accomplish for Italian eats. Restaurateur Luke Shimp’s latest goal is to make this dining option accessible and affordable for the fans of your basic flat crust and red sauce, while at the same time luring the attention of finicky foodies with an interesting and quality-driven menu.

Nice work if you can get it, and I think he has.

Not an easy prospect, here in the North Loop’s hotbed of culinary showtime: pleasing both tube-steak Twins fans and the Wagyu condo crowd in a single setting. Yet, rehabbing a vintage storefront into a pleasant vista of exposed brick anchored by a photogenic back bar makes it tempting to sink into those oldtimey booths.

But the smartest move was hiring Todd Macdonald — the talent behind Calhoun Square’s now-shuttered Parella — to head the kitchen. This is a fellow who knows his way around all things Italian but here has toned it down a notch to the more accommodating stuff of trattorias — same sharp eye for prime ingredients and clever combos, but curated in a fashion Joe Six Pack and Joe Batali can enjoy. (Speaking of which: Nice beer list. But dig deeper: interesting wines and — deeper yet — an amazing and sophisticated cache of spirits.)

And they’re open late. (Ever try to find a sweet meal after

10 p.m. on a weeknight? Good luck with that.) We started our post-theater supper with an order of sausage and peppers. (How old-school eye-talian is that? Bring it on!) Terrific. Several lusty house-made links, rich with Italian spices, lounged amid fingers of sautéed sweet peppers atop a drift of soft, creamy, cornforward polenta, star of the appetizer list ($10–$12), which also includes — ready? — meatballs in red sauce.

Then, from the salad selection ($10–$12), a mammoth, serves-six mound of fresh and spiky greens, topped with an ideally runny poached egg and accented by the savory crunch of hazelnuts, a dusting of fennel pollen and mist of cherry vinaigrette. Just fine. Or go for the classic chopped salad or Caesar.

Next, a pair from the pasta dishes to share — or not ($12– $16). They’re not perfect — this isn’t Monello — but generous and lusty. The Carbonara utilized fresh linguine, bits of smokysalty pancetta and plenty of Parm but in a thick, muddy sauce.

(Do try this at home, and stir in the requisite raw egg just before serving, which didn’t happen here).

Then the tortelloni — huge, honking knife-and-fork bundles of dense, less than malleable noodles encasing Swiss chard — pureed rather than chopped, which diminishes its impact, darn it — abetted by chevre, roasted garlic, more hazelnuts and rosemary.

Had we had room for pizza (individually sized, $10–$15) I’d have relished more of that old-time red sauce, salving everything from salami and house sausage to a simple Margherita.

Or try the mozz-mushroom-garlic cream sauce version. But not the PB&J. Please!

And what’s a sticky toffee pudding-cake, straight out of Ireland, doing on an Italian menu? I have no idea, but it’s my favorite weakness, so fine. And it proved terrific — an ultra-moist slice rich with salted caramel, a strong, sharp, come-hither blast of candied orange peel and a side of sour cream. Or choose panna cotta fused with lychee granite or chocolate budino, a pudding that sounds beyond wonderful (desserts $5–$8).

The concept looks like the prototype for a brood of Rabbits, but until multiplying, as they do, head here for a taste of Mamma Mia underscored with clever updates.

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Ask Dr. Rachel

By Rachel Allyn

Can I break my travel addiction?

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I’m addicted to traveling. I know that sounds like a wonderful thing to be addicted to, but lately it’s been severely impacting my life. When anything uncomfortable happens — a break-up, job stress, parent falling ill — my solution is to hop on a plane. I know it’s a privilege to have the money and time to do that sort of thing, yet I’ve realized that I no longer travel to explore new places or culture. I travel to make my life so busy and to have it seem more fabulous than it actually is.

I have even bought tickets that I don’t even end up using. How can I break this habit?

ticket you can’t use, send it my way.)

But in all seriousness, you are not engaging with travel in this manner; you are using it as a mighty expensive way to numb your feelings. And you know this.

You don’t have to eliminate travel from your life completely. You state you have the privilege of time, so start by dedicating time on your trips to facing what’s bothering you.

The opposite of distracting is focusing and being intentional. Set the intention to spend time every day journaling. Reflect on your feelings and how stress is being stored in your body — not for the purpose of fixing or judging but to simply get familiar with a fundamental human process: learning from your emotions. Because within each one is an underlying need that you can now find direct ways to cope with or treat.

ou can run but you can’t hide.

It’s not possible to fly away from your problems, you can only distract from them temporarily. And the longer you try to distract, the more pernicious your issues become. They turn into baggage — heavy pieces of luggage with split zippers and crooked wheels that weigh you down, becoming harder to repair later.

Travel is your drug of choice and I can see why it’s enticing. Full of possibility, travel can bring out different sides of us. It’s an opportunity to immerse yourself in other cultures and be reminded of our shared humanity.

No longer tied to the same obligations and agenda, I often find myself more laid back on a trip, giving myself permission to explore, be creative and see things with fresh eyes.

(Come to think of it, the next time you have a

You want your life to appear fabulous to others, so you’ve become a globetrotter and created a facade. This will only leave you feeling hollow and be exhausting to maintain.

The number of ‘likes’ you get on social media is not an indication of your worth or identity.

To find out how truly fabulous you really are, start a new journey — explore the nuances of your one-of-a-kind self and live authentically. Start by devoting a weekend to a staycation during which you slow down and patiently focus on your relationship with yourself — your essence, your support network and your values.

During this time, avoid social media.

Avoid anything that leads you to compare or compete with others or anything that takes you away from being present. Self-compassion with your experience will be paramount.

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