Southwest Journal, May 18–31, 2017

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+ ‘Mess’ to success in Kenwood + Bringing peace to the backyard + Caring for wood floors

Preserving anything but tradition + A guide to tree maintenance + A Victorian steps into the future + When not to downsize

“Savory Sweet” takes a modern approach to preserving / PAGE B1

May 18–31, 2017 Vol. 28, No. 10 southwestjournal.com

To reopen Nicollet Avenue at Lake Street, the city may become Kmart’s landlord

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

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he City of Minneapolis and Sears Holdings Corporation haven’t reached a deal to reconnect Nicollet Avenue through the site where a Kmart store sits today.

The parties don’t agree on the price Kmart should pay in a new development, according to city staff. But staff expect to ask the City Council in June to exercise its option to purchase the land under

In the breakup of a transit collaborative, good news for transit Transit board’s end could erase question marks for light-rail funding

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

A regional collaboration on transit planning and funding may be ending, but that turns out to be good news for the state’s largest-ever transit project.

After backing off from a breakup earlier this year, members of the Counties Transit Improvement Board SEE TRANSIT BREAKUP / PAGE A14

Kmart. The Council approved an option in 2015 to buy the Kmart site at 10 W. Lake St. for $8 million.

“The good news is this will achieve certainty SEE KMART / PAGE A15

 City officials will consider purchasing the Lake Street Kmart’s land next month, according to city staff.

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School Board prepares for wellness policy vote Policy would require half an hour of recess in elementary schools

Eight-year-old Kennedy Robinson plays on the playground at Lucy Craft Laney Community School in North Minneapolis. The Minneapolis School Board is considering a proposal to mandate 30 minutes of recess daily at all elementary schools in the district. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

The Minneapolis Board of Education is preparing to vote on a policy that would mandate at least 30 minutes of daily recess in all elementary schools and clarify what foods and beverages the district can offer and when it can offer them.

The proposed wellness policy would require a minimum of 30 minutes of recess in all elementary schools in MPS. It would also require that all food and beverages sold or offered during the school day comply with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s nutrition standards. The policy would

define the school day as being from midnight to 30 minutes after dismissal.

The proposed policy comes nearly a year after the USDA finalized its rules on what school districts need to include in their wellness policies. Policies are required for districts that participate in the National School Lunch Program, which provides millions of students with no-cost or low-cost meals each day.

The USDA’s final rule said wellness policies must include SEE WELLNESS POLICY VOTE / PAGE A22

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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

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Apartments at Comic Book College site A corner that once supported two side-by-side comic book stores is slated to become a fourstory building with residences and retail, pending city approval.

More than 130 new comics arrive at Comic Book College every Wednesday, and regular customers come to check out the new arrivals each week. The owner landed a new location next to the Dollar Tree at 46th & Nicollet.

The Lander Group development proposal for the site would rise four floors (at a height of 47 feet) with 25 apartments. The building facade would step back twice from Hennepin Avenue on the third and fourth floors.

The project could house up to four retailers and outdoor dining. Twenty-four parking spaces would be located on the basement level.

“The project is scaled to respond to the fast growing market of 1 and 2 person households,” states the project application.

Lander Principal Michael Pink said units would range from 575 square feet at $1,300 per month to 1,800 square feet at rates to be determined.

The project as proposed would require a conditional use permit to increase height from three stories permitted in the Neighborhood Commercial District to four stories. Construction would begin in the fall, pending city approval, and finish in the fall of 2018.

Comic Book College owner Tim Lohn said neighbors were initially surprised they didn’t have a chance to buy the building themselves.

“It scared me, because there is so much history here,” he said.

East Calhoun Cleaners relocated to Twin City Cleaners at 2000 Hennepin Ave. S. Staff at Uptown Family & Cosmetic Dentistry said they are planning a move to Edina, and EmazingLights reportedly closed several months ago.

“I’d close, but then I’d have to find a real job,” Lohn said.

He said the new space at 46th & Nicollet would be larger, with a bigger kids’ area. He devotes a corner of the shop with beanbag seating to comics like “Archie” and “Darkwing Duck.”

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“A lot of stores don’t have much of that anymore,” he said.

He said Comic Book College opened in 1974, and is the oldest comic book store in Minnesota.

“The bins are full of back issues from the last 40–50 years,” he said.

Lohn has owned the shop since 2003. He previously worked as a mental health therapist and sold comic books at weekend conventions across the country to subsidize his education.

He’s known for his organization — all the comics are scanned in a digital database, color coded by publisher, separated by dividers and in alphabetical order.

“You don’t have to dig for three hours,” he said.

He sold comics in the boom years in the 1990s, when demand driven by speculation drove print runs into the millions.

“I saw a lot of people go out of business,” he said. “It’s not crazy like it used to be, but more realistic I think. … I’m hopeful for the future.”

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Lindsay Grabb said inner dialogue on a yoga mat — thoughts about a difficult pose or comparison to a neighbor — can reflect inner dialogue off the mat as well.

“Your yoga mat becomes a mirror to help you figure out what’s holding you back,” she said. “The process of yoga can help people find purpose.”

The husband-and-wife owners are trained in the Baptiste Methodology. Grabb has taught at studios across town including Blooma, Yoga Center of Minneapolis and Minnesota Power Yoga, and she’s assembled a team of instructors she’s met along the way (including Brandyn Negri, owner of the former Sigh Yoga).

Grabb also taught in Singapore, teaching 10–15 classes per week alongside people with training across Southeast Asia, which steeped her practice in tradition.

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“The last record store on earth,” according to the T-shirts, is closing Dec. 31.

Owner Mark Trehus said in Facebook posts that he’s happily retiring.

“The decision is based mainly on the excitement of what I have to look forward to in life and in marriage, but today, the sadness of giving up something that I love is overwhelming,” he wrote.

He said condolences are not in order, however.

“I have NO regrets and am doing this not because business is bad or anything like that,” he wrote. “I am doing this because I can best enjoy the rest of my life if I don’t have to tend to the shop. I will reveal a whole lot more later, but it’s ALL GOOD!” Trehus did not immediately return calls for comment. He posted that he will be looking for a new tenant.

“I can’t imagine that someone would want to continue a record shop in that location, but I’m open to all inquiries,” he wrote. “I keep thinking restaurant or coffee shop, what with the friggin’ Aldi’s and high-rise going in across the street, but whatever it is I hope it’s something that I can feel good about.”

Treehouse Records was preceded at the corner

by Oar Folkjokeopus. Trehus was a longtime manager there, and he purchased the business and renamed it Treehouse in 2001.

“When we opened in 2001, you had to be crazy to do a store focused on vinyl,” former manager Dan Cote told the Southwest Journal on the shop’s 10th anniversary. “At the time, CDs probably accounted for 60 to 70 percent of our sales, vinyl 30 to 40, and that was still a much higher percentage [for vinyl] than other stores in town.”

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A mother-son team is opening a new antique shop in the former Piccadilly Prairie space at 50th & Xerxes.

The shop will provide a bit of contrast between mother Jane Hall and son Mitchell Hall’s tastes.

Mitchell has leather jackets and graffiti art painted on movie screens. Jane has ’60s- and ’70s-era Star Tribune photos ranging from fires to Dayton’s fashion shoots. The shop includes taxidermy and an old embalming table.

“It’s like ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ ” she said. “We like to have odd, unusual and interesting pieces. … It’s kind of bohemian, but then you’ve got that mixture of a farm cart, chicken feeder, leatherstuffed chair and modern architectural table.”

Jane said she doesn’t repurpose or paint her finds.

“If it’s 100 years old, it’s 100 years old,” she

said. “Some of the dirt may go with it.”

Jane has worked in antique shops since 1999, and in 2001 she started an occasional shop with a friend in the city of Carver. She participated in SHOP 501 in Chaska three years ago. This is her first entrepreneurial venture with Mitchell.

“It’s fun to see how he interprets it, and see what a young eye has to bring,” she said. “I’m not guiding him, and I’m not telling him what to buy. It will be a neat collaboration between the two of us.”

After spending a lot of time and money trying to introduce people to the city of Carver, Jane said it’s nice to open at an antique hub that’s well known.

“There is a built-in destination there,” she said. “That whole corner has a good vibe.”

The shop opens May 18 at 5014 Xerxes Ave. S. Hours are Thursday thru Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

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The owners of Mrs. Dumpling announced they have abandoned plans to open at Lake & Lyndale, shortly after Lyndale Tobacco moved down the street to make room for them.

Lyndale Tobacco is now located at 722 W. Lake St. in the former Macho & Metro storefront.

Owner Anit Bhatia said he needed to relocate to provide space for Mrs. Dumpling’s dumpster.

“Two days later, they’re no longer coming,” he said.

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His local restaurant resume includes Passage To India, Great India and India House.

Uddin uses scratch spices and fresh ingredients, and favorites on his menu include chicken makhani (tandoori chicken cooked in fresh korma sauce with a touch of light cream and imported seasonings), as well as beef vuna (lean beef prepared with fresh tomatoes, sliced onions, green pepper and ginger in mild curry sauce). The owners also recommend the mango lassi and homemade chai.

Corraya and Rajib both worked in restaurants on the side while studying IT management and computer information systems. They met each other through their husbands, who were roommates years ago.

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Mayoral candidate Levy-Pounds criticizes Hodges and Harteau After Mayor Betsy Hodges and Police Chief Janeé Harteau publicly disagreed about Harteau’s pick to lead the 4th Precinct, mayoral candidate Nekima Levy-Pounds criticized their “ongoing miscommunication and lack of strong leadership” in a City Hall speech.

In what was billed as a “State of the City” address, Levy-Pounds called for a “paradigm shift” in city leadership in front of a group of about 20 supporters who gathered in the City Hall rotunda May 4.

“I know that such addresses are typically reserved for the mayor of the city,” she said.

“However, considering the dysfunction that we have been witnessing at City Hall in recent weeks and over the last nearly four years, I took the liberty of crafting this message to help redirect our city leaders, to sharpen our areas of focus and to remind us all that the people of this great city are the ones who suffer when our government is not living up to its responsibilities.”

A week earlier, Hodges had rejected Harteau’s pick to lead the department’s 4th Precinct, which covers the city’s North Side. The fight over the appointment of Lt. John Delmonico played out in news reports and in public statements issued separately by the two city leaders.

Delmonico, a former head of the police union, was a central figure in the so-called “Pointergate” episode of 2014, when he claimed Hodges flashed a gang sign in a photo with a campaign canvasser. In an interview after the speech, Levy-Pounds said Delmonico’s involvement in fueling the “Pointergate” story was “a slap in the face to the black community.”

“We need an inspector that knows how to reach the community, how to advocate for

what’s in the best interests of the community and how to build trust with the community.

Delmonico is not that person. Chief Harteau should’ve known that,” she said.

Levy-Pounds said Levy-Pounds she would replace Harteau if she wins the mayor’s race in November. Noting that news reports indicated Hodges initially supported Harteau’s pick, Levy-Pounds said it showed the mayor was “out of touch” with the city’s black residents.

Levy-Pounds focused a significant portion of her speech on the city’s response to crime, calling for a “genuine model of community policing that involves community members and not just the usual suspects and shared decision making about how our police will function.”

She said increasing access to educational opportunities, employment and affordable housing, as well as raising the minimum wage, should be coupled with police reform in a “holistic” approach to reducing violent crime rates.

“The problems are a symbol of broken social systems and government neglect of our most vulnerable populations,” she said.

Hodges is scheduled to deliver her own State of the City address May 23 at Masjid an-Nur, a mosque in Near North located about a mile from the 4th Precinct.

Minneapolis residents join climate march in D.C. State Rep. Frank Hornstein was among a group of Minneapolis residents who joined about 250 other Minnesotans in traveling to Washington, D.C, for the April 29 People’s Climate March to urge action on protecting the environment.

Attended by what organizers estimate were 300,000 people, the march coincided with President Trump’s 100th day in office. The five busloads of marchers from Minnesota included Hornstein and his Southwest Minneapolis neighbors Ann Manning and Patty O’Keefe.

The march took place in 91-degree heat on a day of record-breaking high temperatures in the Washington, D.C., area.

“It was almost too hot to march at the global warming march,” joked O’Keefe.

Hornstein described as “very concerning” the direction of environmental policy under President Trump and his pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who has questioned the settled science of global warming caused by human activity. An executive order Trump signed in March ordered Pruitt to undo much of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which targeted the greenhouse gas emissions produced by power plants,

and the president has publicly toyed with pulling out of the Paris Agreement, a global plan to limit human-caused climate change.

“It’s alarming because we’re currently in a climate crisis,” said O’Keefe, an organizer with environmental nonprofit MN350, noting that in April the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere registered at 410 parts per million for the first time in human history.

Created mostly by burning fossil fuels, atmospheric carbon dioxide is associated with a warming climate.

“It’s already impacting people’s lives viscerally,” O’Keefe said, adding that as the planet warms we experience more extreme weather and rising sea levels. “... The time to act was yesterday.”

“It just seems like we are on the brink of no return,” said Manning, who leads the Women’s Congress for Future Generations.

All three, however, described the march as an inspiring event. Manning said local environmental activists are “on fire” and planning multiple actions each day.

“What we really need now is collective action to show the muscles of the movement,” O’Keefe said.

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The last Republican to serve a full term as mayor of Minneapolis assumed office in 1957, DFLers have held it since 1978 and this year’s City Council races are pulling city politics to the left. But Honerbrink doesn’t present himself as a traditional Republican.

“I’m not a normal Republican by any means,” he said.

Raised on the North Side and a current resident of the West Calhoun neighborhood, Honerbrink said he comes from a “fairly liberal family” and has voted GOP only once in his life. He had few kind words for the Republican currently occupying the White House.

The former small business owner said he read the job description for mayor of Minneapolis and thought: “This fits me very well.” He quit his job with a Home Depot subcontractor in March to focus all of his attention on the 2017 city elections.

“The whole part of being mayor is to focus on the community and protect the community,” he said. “I want that job.”

Honerbrink emphasized his community connections in a recent interview, including time spent volunteering as a parks league football coach and mentoring youth on the North Side. As mayor, Honerbrink would promote early learning — also a priority for the incumbent, Mayor Betsy Hodges, who formed the Cradle to K cabinet in 2014 — and try to expand access to healthcare, particularly mental health care.

“I’m about kids,” he said. “My whole goal is about kids.”

Honerbrink said he would like the city to use tax credits to incentivize businesses like CVS, Walgreens and Target to open new stores with minute clinics in underserved communities like North Minneapolis.

He’d use the same tool — tax credits — to encourage Minneapolis police officers to move into the city, offering a $7,500 break on property taxes and other incentives to buy homes in the precincts where they work.

Honerbrink suggested selling city assets, such as the Minneapolis Convention Center, to pay for investments in programs for children ages 3–5. But Honerbrink said the “first thing” he’d do after taking office would be to hire a consulting firm to help him interview every Minneapolis police officer in an attempt to root out racist attitudes.

“After you see a bunch of crap, you start getting bias,” he said.

Pressed on the feasibility of these plans, Honerbrink said he’s prepared to be tested and to learn on the job.

“I don’t have all the answers,” he said. “I have to ask questions to get the right answers.”

If elected, Honerbrink said he’d spend less time in City Hall and more time out on the streets listening to community concerns and talking with business owners.

“Betsy Hodges, she doesn’t go anywhere.

She’s gone,” he said.

On Facebook, Honerbrink has come out in support of Pathway to $15, a campaign backed by the restaurant industry that advocates inclusion of a tip credit (also known as a tip penalty) in any proposal to raise the citywide minimum wage. It would allow business owners to pay tipped workers less than the minimum wage, as long as the workers’ tips plus wages totaled at least $15 an hour over the course of a shift.

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For the graduates: Toss those mortarboards high and far

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n eyewitness report from one local college’s graduation ceremony over the weekend suggests that the high school and college graduating classes of 2017 are treating their big rite of passage with alligator arms.

“It was pathetic,” complained the eyewitness, of the youth-gone-mild moment that came after the commencement speaker instructed the youths to flip the tassels of their mortarboards (graduation caps) from right to left, in the timehonored tradition of commemorating leaving one school behind for the next stage of life and scholarship. What happened next is a pale imitation of what has been happening at graduation ceremonies since the turn of the century.

Said eyewitness reports that the entire graduating class timidly tossed their caps a few inches in the air, grabbed them out of mid-air and clutched them to their chests, so as to maintain the safety of all amidst the hurricane of Ninja Dragon Stars raining down on their heads. Never mind that once upon a time the simple cap toss signified to everyone involved a jettisoning of the past, a thrust into the future, goals accomplished and new ones on the table. Now? Unlike every “School’s Out For Summer” scene played out by every generation before them, the kids of today have been led to believe that throwing their caps in the air, primly and per school rules and with no semblance of ceremonial gusto, is a good thing — and they’re not alone.

Last week, describing the throwing of mortarboards as an “unacceptable risk,” the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, sent out an email telling students they should “mime the throwing of their hats in the air and we will then Photoshop them in above the ground before printing. As well as being safer, this will have the added advantage that even more of the students’ faces will be seen in this photograph.”

Woo. Hoo. In 2008, England’s Anglia Ruskin University banned graduation caps- tossing after a flying mortarboard sent a student to the emergency room for stitches, and last year the University of Birmingham put the brakes on the tradition entirely, outlawing it to “ensure everyone has an enjoyable time.” In 2014, students at Ridgewood (Illinois) High School were denied their diplomas until they publically apologized for ignoring the caps-tossing ban. (The school later reversed its decision and caps-tossing has been reinstated.)

As far as anyone can tell, Yale University was the only American educational institution to be sued — unsuccessfully, in 1984 — by a commencement ceremony guest for injury by flying mortarboard, with the court holding, “a mortarboard was neither inherently dangerous nor more likely to cause injury if improperly used than was any other angular object, thus it was not a dangerous instrumentality.”

Are you listening, classes of 2017 at the University of Minnesota, Southwest, Washburn, Roosevelt, South, North, St. Olaf, Macalester, Carleton, Augsburg, MCTC and beyond? Welcome to the world, a world that is constantly trying to tamp you down and make you fall in line with all sorts of ridiculous rules, so it says here: Throw ’em if you’ve got ’em, because that soaring square represents you, you, you — lifting off from the past and rocketing into the future, and as you well know by now you should never forget to be exuberant about your life or miss a chance to express that exuberance or question authority at every stupid turn. (Also: look out for your neighbor and flying objects at all times.)

The tradition of throwing the mortarboard — named for its resemblance to a tool used by masons to hold mortar and made fashionable in the 14th and 15th centuries by artists and students — started at the Naval Academy in 1912. Newly minted officers received their dress hats and no longer needed the midshipmen caps they’d worn for four years, so they tossed their hats into the air like they just didn’t care and the tradition stuck and spread.

Until the Safety First crowd torpedoed the tossers, leaving us with scenes like the one that

left our eyewitness deeply discouraged about the younger generation’s creeping compliance.

Nevertheless, cap-tossers everywhere have persisted — as well they should.

Is there anything that says freedom and possibility more than the sight of a flying graduation cap? It’s a symbol of hard work paying off, a job well done, a true graduation into What Comes Next. Sure, it’s just a goofy tradition, but a cap-tossing ban surely harms our kids’ young psyches as they make their way into adulthood, so I’m here today as a Safety Last-loving grown-up handing out permission slips to the class of 2017.

We’re asked to “mime the act” too much in this life, to not get too excited or speak our minds or hearts, so I say let ’em rip.

Throw that mortarboard — far and high.

Or don’t. Keep it to yourself and for yourself and don’t let anyone tell you that you can or can’t throw it, just as you shouldn’t let anyone tell you what to do with your life. The world needs you and your courage, and your next act should start with a determined flick of the wrist, not trembling alligator arms.

Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis.

He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com

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An open letter to my City Council member Dear Ms. Bender, Why are you and the city planners for bicycle lanes causing so much havoc in Uptown? Are you simply a bike fanatic? Is this all you, as my representative, really care about when there are so many other more important issues to address than ruining Uptown with your bike routes?

I have lived in Uptown for over 25 years, much longer than you have, and I have watched the transformation of this pleasant “village” with sadness. More and more glitzy buildings, more and more crowded spaces, less green, more pollution.

Already the transformation of 36th Street to help biking has been a disaster. I drive that street many times every day, and there are hardly any bikers to be seen, while traffic is often bottled because of the new bike lane.

Now you and the planners want to destroy Hennepin Avenue with a ridiculous plan that will bottle this avenue, which again is rarely used by bikers. Why? Do you think bikers will use this to connect to the greenway? Of course not. Do you think bikers have had difficulty getting to the shopping between 31st Street and Lake?

Of course not. But will your plan hurt business owners in Uptown? Of course it will.

It will also make parking more difficult, or it will force people who come to Uptown to park on the side streets, cluttering these streets that are already crowded.

To tell you the truth, the planners and your plans are absurd, and you seem to be riding a hobby horse while ignoring other issues in Uptown such as pollution, high rental rates, lack of diversity and many other social issues that are much more important than creating ridiculous bike lanes.

You had my vote in past elections, you no longer have my vote and I shall seek to find a different representative who is really progressive and not just a fad representative.

Jack Zipes East Calhoun

In support of bike lanes and safer streets The recent Southwest Journal article “Bike lanes, less parking proposed for stretch of Hennepin Ave.” highlighted many voices in opposition but too few in support.

We’re a young family living in CARAG who plans to raise our kids and grow old in Minneapolis. We own one car, but we primarily get around town with our son and daughter on foot, bike and by transit. We support the proposed changes to Hennepin Avenue, and then some.

The article and many concerned neighbors miss the strong policy and planning support for a bike facility on Hennepin Avenue. The city approved a nationally renowned Complete Streets Policy that explicitly puts the needs of people on foot, bike and transit — typically our most vulnerable and often economically challenged neighbors — above those driving and parking cars.

We agree with staff: The proposal will slow cars, improve walking conditions,

A view of the proposed Hennepin Avenue redesign between Lake and 31st streets.

make crossing easier, speed up buses and make biking more attractive.

Once completed, our family would have a safe, direct bike route into our favorite Uptown destinations. This design also sets the tone for a future Hennepin bike facility north of Lake Street to access even more destinations. This is precisely why the city chose Hennepin for bike lanes over other side streets in the Bicycle Master Plan.

The recent community meeting gave voice to many opposed residents, a group overrepresented by older homeowners.

Our neighborhoods are majority renter and under 40, many of whom don’t own cars.

But beyond that, kids who can’t legally drive and elderly who rely on biking, walking and transit to get around and stay healthy deserve a better Hennepin, too.

The city’s survey of over 400 residents reflects this need. The option with bike lanes and no parking had the highest support: 59 percent were “Very Supportive” or “Supportive.” Compare that to staff ’s recommended design (50 percent) or the option of maintaining both side parking with no bike lanes (33 percent).

Our neighbors are begging for highquality bike and pedestrian facilities on Hennepin. Let’s listen to them!

We actually want staff to consider a design that is even safer and more comfortable for

A view of the proposed street design between 31st and 36th streets.

people on bikes. The city could pursue a design with slightly narrower driving lanes, like many 65-foot-wide Dutch streets where the bikeway is raised and behind the boulevard space. Parking, drop-offs and business deliveries can be accommodated on both sides of the street, alternating with boulevard space for trees, bike parking, bus stops and pedestrian lighting.

Let’s build a Hennepin Avenue that’s safe for everyone, including drivers, by putting pedestrians and bicycles first.

Alex and Caitlin Cecchini CARAG

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This photo shows the newly installed sculpture just days before the official September 1988 grand opening of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, a partnership between the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. The Cowles Conservatory stands in the background. The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden closed for a two-year renovation in 2015 and will reopen to the public on June 3.

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The kitchen’s last major remodel dated from the 1970s. It had a double wall-oven and a peninsula that held a corner sink and dishwasher, but no seating. The burners on the electric range needed coaxing to work. Even the appliances’ sizes were outdated, making it impossible to replace them without disturbing the cabinetry.

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The troublesome peninsula was removed, and the door to the garage moved several inches toward the dining room to make space for more cabinets. A new sink was installed beneath a trio of windows that overlook the deck. Those casement windows were replaced with custom-made windows that still open with a crank but have mullions like others in the house. The electric JennAir range, whose ventilation system took up a chunk of undercounter space, was replaced with a GE gas range and a stainless range hood.

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“They will take one of our stock designs and kind of tweak it to make it even more custom,” Anderson said. The couple is thrilled with the unique backsplash design, according to Jones.

“Buzz just said, ‘How about a green backsplash?’ and that’s what they came over with,” she said. “That was it.”

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Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin speaking last summer at a public meeting that preceded a funding deal on Southwest Light Rail Transit. File photo

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now have a plan to dissolve a partnership that lasted nearly a decade. It frees the counties to raise money for transit projects on their own, and potentially to erase the remaining questions marks in the local funding package for the nearly $1.9 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit project.

The funds CTIB spent on local transit projects came from a quarter-cent sales tax and a $20 motor vehicle sales tax levied in its five member counties: Hennepin, Ramsey, Dakota, Anoka and Washington.

Under current state law, once they end the partnership, those counties could choose to raise the sales tax to a half-cent.

Hennepin County will likely do just that to make up for the state’s missing 10-percent contribution to the light-rail project, Hennepin County Board Chair Peter McLaughlin said. A 14.5-mile extension of the METRO Green Line that currently runs between Minneapolis and St. Paul, the project would extend the tracks through the southwestern suburbs to Eden Prairie.

“We’ve always had a way to finance Southwest; this is just a better way to finance Southwest,” said McLaughlin, who also chairs CTIB.

Metropolitan Council Chair Adam Duininck described the pending deal as “another piece of good news” following word that Southwest Light Rail Transit would receive $10 million in the next federal budget. Project supporters consider that a down payment on the nearly $930 million expected from the Federal Transit Administration, enough to cover half of construction costs.

“Those two pieces of news together, again, it just removes any of this uncertainty the critics are trying to promote,” Duininck said.

Those critics would disagree. The FTA has yet to approve a full-funding grant agreement for the project, which also remains the subject of an ongoing lawsuit by the Lakes and Parks Alliance. The local citizens group alleges planners improperly settled on a route through Minneapolis’ Kenilworth Corridor before completing a full environmental review.

Striking a deal Reaching an agreement on CTIB’s fiveway divorce required sweetening the pot for Dakota County. When CTIB funds are distributed among the five member counties, Dakota’s share of those funds will be $21.3 million, a more than 40-percent increase in the $14.8 million offer discussed by board members in March.

As part of the deal, the Met Council also agreed to take over from CTIB the ongoing operating subsidy for the METRO Red Line, which amounts to over $1 million a year. The bus rapid transit route connects the Mall of America to the Apple Valley Transit Station in Dakota County.

The plan still requires approval by the boards of all CTIB member counties. The goal is to notify the Department of Revenue in June so that taxes currently collected by CTIB can be rerouted to the counties by October, McLaughlin said.

He said a more detailed timeline for the breakup would be developed after the current legislative session adjourns in St. Paul, where bills under consideration could have a significant impact on the resources available for transit projects.

We’ve always had a way to finance Southwest; this is just a better way to finance Southwest.

Funding burden shifts The breakup of CTIB also means some of the burden for funding Southwest Light Rail Transit construction will shift to Hennepin County from the Met Council.

Met Council reluctantly agreed last year to issue $103.5 million in so-called certificates of participation to complete the project’s local funding package, turning to the new and still largely unknown financial instrument as part of a $144.5-million deal brokered by Gov. Mark Dayton. Hennepin County also increased its contribution to the project as part of a plan to get around Republican opposition to light-rail projects at the Capitol and make up for the state’s incomplete financial contribution to the project.

Duininck said he was “relieved” Met Council would not have to issue the certificates of participation as planned this summer, calling it “the best of bad options.”

Instead, McLaughlin said, Hennepin County plans to borrow the $103.5 million and pay for it with the additional tax revenue it collects after CTIB ends.

The county will also pay a lower interest rate than Met Council would have on certificates of participation. That shrinks, but only slightly, the budget deficit that has Met Council considering bus and light rail fare hikes for its Metro Transit service.

Spokesperson Kate Brickman that deficit was estimated at $67.5 million for the coming biennium, down from an estimate of $74 million earlier this year. Not issuing certificates of participation will save the agency about $9 million over those two years, but Met Council will also pay an

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additional $2.5 million for METRO Red Line operations during that same period, Brickman said.

The future of regionalism The pending end of CTIB could be interpreted as a blow to regionalism, and Duinicnk, whose Met Council is itself a form of regional governance, said it was something that concerned him early on in the conversation about ending the transit partnership.

But he said the relationships between the counties “are as strong as they’ve ever been.”

“It aligns the region probably more with what the transit needs are,” Duininck added, noting that, while all CTIB member counties have transit operations, there are far more riders and much higher frequency service in Hennepin and Ramsey counties.

“I think it’s about the outcomes,” he said. “It’s about having a strong bus and light-rail system.”

McLaughlin shared a similar sentiment.

While “on its face, it looks like step backwards for regionalism,” he said, the end of CTIB means more money for a transit system that is used in all of the member counties.

“It’s a plus for the region, because the regional transit system is going to have more money invested in it in the long run,” he said.

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Several passersby said this week the Kmart store on Lake Street is important to them.

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that the street will be open,” said David Frank, the city’s director of economic policy and development. “Of course, what it won’t have is certainty about when that will happen.”

Kmart’s lease is renewable through 2053, and the company has stated that it should remain operating onsite without interruption and become part of any new development there.

“Sears Holdings remains in discussion with the City but is still waiting for a workable proposal,” Sears Holdings spokesperson Howard Riefs said in a statement. “The Lake Street Kmart is a successful and profitable store with a long-term lease that provides stable jobs in the neighborhood.”

Frank said the city proposed subsidizing the cost of constructing a new store and offered a rent rate at a new building that would be less than typical market rates for new development.

“Even subsidized, that’s enough more than what they currently pay that they were not interested in that arrangement,” he said. “They don’t want to pay more than what they pay today.”

City staff has focused on trying to reach a deal with Kmart that incorporates the retailer into new development, rather than trying to buy out the lease, he said.

Staff plan to send a recommendation on land acquisition to the Community Development & Regulatory Services Committee on June 20.

“The Council would need to be comfortable that [the site] might look just like what it does for quite a while,” Frank said. “… I don’t think [Kmart’s] position is going to change dramatically any time soon.”

Frank said they would continue to work toward a deal, however.

“Everyone has read in the financial newspapers about the condition of Sears/Kmart, so it’s not impossible that that changes at some point,” he said.

Sears Holdings said in a March Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it continues to face challenges. The company reported a loss in 2016 and said it drew from investments to pay for operating activities.

“We expect to continue to right-size, redeploy and highlight the value of our assets, including our real estate portfolio, in our transition from an asset intensive, historically ‘store-only’ based retailer to a more asset light, integrated membership-focused company,” states the filing. “Our historical operating results indicate substantial doubt exists related to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”

Kmart also has a say in what is constructed next door. The city purchased the Supervalu site in late 2015 for $5.2 million. The city is still collecting rent from the grocer, which closed in 2014, and the lease runs through next month.

Frank said there are no new plans there, and any new development would be subject to approval

by Kmart under a current agreement.

The good news is this will achieve certainty that the street will be open. Of course, what it won’t have is certainty about when that will happen.

— David Frank, City of Minneapolis director of economic policy and development

“Kmart effectively has veto power over development on the other property,” Frank said.

“We would love to put out an RFP [request for proposal] shortly for a development proposal at Lake & Blaisdell in front of the grocery store.

We’re not sure yet that Kmart will approve that.”

Riefs said in a statement that Kmart would be open to redevelopment.

“We will gladly continue to review all redevelopment proposals for our parcel and any new proposals for the adjacent site once they are received and will discuss them directly with our partners in the City,” he said.

Not everyone is in a rush to reopen Nicollet Avenue. The status quo was perfectly fine with several people waiting at bus stops this week near Kmart at 1st & Lake.

“Leave Kmart alone,” said Felicia Kirk, who said she’s shopped there for 20 years.

“It’s a good location the way it is,” said Cruz Martinez.

Martinez and others warmed to the idea of reconnecting Nicollet Avenue upon learning Kmart could stay onsite.

“If they move it to the side, at least it would be brand new. It would be a brand new store for the community,” said Carlos Hines.

Stevens Square resident Jordan Kentfield compared the situation to New York’s 2nd Avenue Subway — a project in development for nearly a century.

“I feel the same way about that as I feel about Kmart,” said Kentfield, who lived in New York in the ’60s. “I’m used to it.”

He said Kmart serves an important purpose in the neighborhood, and he feels the loss of the grocery store next door. He noted that Kmart says the store is very profitable.

“I’m not worried about them closing anytime soon,” he said.

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Top chefs, middle schoolers compete in iron chef Four acclaimed Minneapolis chefs competed alongside Minneapolis Public Schools middle school students May 8 in the district’s thirdannual Junior Iron Chef competition.

Lucas Rosenbrook of Alma, Molly Herrmann of Kitchen in the Market, Marshall Paulsen of Birchwood Café and Vincent Francoual of Cara Irish Pubs each worked with teams of two students to create and cook a meal for a panel of celebrity judges. The teams had about an hour to come up with a plan, cook and plate their creations before presenting them to the panel at the Solar Arts

by Chowgirls building in Northeast.

The event aimed to raise awareness about fresh food and efforts around healthy eating in the district, said Bertrand Weber, director of Culinary and Nutrition Services.

“It’s really about connecting Minneapolis Public Schools with the local culinary community,” he said. “It’s a really nice example of top chefs getting involved.”

The district has moved away from serving prepackaged meals out of a central kitchen to preparing fresh foods at individual buildings

The winning Iron Chef team: Marcy Open School student Riyan Said, Lucas Rosenbrook of Alma and Ramsey Middle School student Max Myrvik.

Photo by Nate Gotlieb

under Weber’s leadership. It’s in the process of installing kitchens in each building and has also worked to install salad bars in schools.

The district has also created the True Food Chef Council, a partnership between Weber’s department and the Minneapolis restaurant and culinary community. The council aims to spread the word about the positive changes on Minneapolis’ lunch menus, said member Tracy

Singleton of Birchwood Café.

She said the council has helped fundraise for the salad bars and has contributed recipes to MPS. Herrmann, a member of the True Food council, worked with seventh-graders Darah Ross and Tiana Novack at the Iron Chef event to create potato and lentil salad with radishes and homemade empanadas with farro, turkey

and cranberries. She said it was fun to work with the girls, adding that the hardest part for them was chopping evenly.

The secret, Tiana said, is to make sure you move your fingers as you go.

Darah and Tiana, best friends who attend Northeast Middle School, said they thought it would be scary to cook in a competition, though it turned out to be fun. The girls have been cooking since third grade and like their food spicy, so Herrmann had to implore them not to add too much Sriracha sauce to their dish.

Adjacent to them, Ramsey Middle School eighth-grader Max Myrvik made tostadas with chorizo and a farro and lentil chili alongside Rosenbrook and Marcy Open School student Riyan Said. The trio earned the Iron Chef crown for their recipe.

Max said the dish exceeded his standards, adding that it was nice to learn from a pro chef.

“Cooking’s like one of the funnest things ever,” he said.

Board voices support for Ramsey rename Minneapolis School Board members voiced support for renaming Ramsey Middle School after former Minnesota Vikings player and Minnesota Supreme Court justice Alan Page at their May 9 meeting.

The board will officially vote on the proposed name change at its June 13 meeting, but several School Board members who spoke on the proposal appeared in favor.

“I think that it does show that we are making progress in our community,” said Ira Jourdain, who represents Southwest Minneapolis.

“Moving forward, I think it is something that we can be proud of as a community.”

Board Member Nelson Inz thanked the teachers who helped coordinate the effort,

Paul Sommers and Elissa Cedarleaf Dahl, as well as Ramsey Site Council member David Weingartner.

“I think it just goes to show what a great profession it is being a teacher and how you can really impact social change by being a great teacher,” Inz said, noting that May 9 was Teacher Appreciation Day. Superintendent Ed Graff gave his support to the effort in a letter to Principal Erin Rathke last month. He wrote that he appreciates that the rename effort started with students and teachers engaged in learning, adding that it was evident the student-leaders were motivated by a desire to make change through advocacy and public policy.

“My endorsement is truly inspired by the student-led process that I believe represents education at its best,” Graff said at the May 9 meeting.

Graff said the student-leaders reached out to alumni, parents and community members and worked very closely with Nan Miller, the district’s director of policy development.

“They were very intentional and deliberate about how they came about this decision,” he said. “They saw this as an opportunity to engage in the process, regardless of what the outcome was.”

The vote will wrap up a months-long effort to rename the school, which the students initiated at the beginning of this school year. The school

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community narrowed a list of potential new namesakes down to five earlier this year, and the school’s site council expressed support for three finalists: Page, Martha Ripley, a 19th-century physician, and the phrase Bde Ota, which means “many lakes” in the Dakota language.

The site council in their recommendation emphasized that Page was their top choice.

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ness’s social justice angle, having launched a public awareness organization related to human trafficking in college.

“She was looking for someone to help carry the load and help make it happen,” he said.

They plan to rent time at local roasters like Corner Coffee or Bootstrap Coffee Roasters, using fair-trade organic beans from Cafe Imports.

“We’re excited to offer people the opportunity to not only taste amazing coffee, but put hard-earned money to a greater cause,” Griswold said.

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Carley Kammerer and Ben Griswold will bring Gutter Punk Coffee to the Whittier Farmers Market in June. Submitted photos

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Gutter Punk Coffee Whittier Farmers Market

Carley Kammerer’s parents owned a coffee shop in suburban Milwaukee. Growing up, a diluted mocha was Kammerer’s version of fancy chocolate milk.

She always wanted a shop of her own, but her business model is more than a coffeehouse.

Kammerer works as a social worker, and she’s seen homeless youth struggle to keep a job.

“They can get jobs really easily, but keeping them is really hard,” she said. “They can get fired really quickly.”

By offering jobs to homeless youth at Gutter Punk, Kammerer wants to teach basic job skills that can be challenging for youth on the street — calling in absences, resolving conflicts, keeping a schedule and emphasizing punctuality. An independent living skills curriculum would cover the basics of laundry, groceries and budgeting.

And youth would connect to workers in

their fields of interest, so they have bigger prospects after the coffee gig ends.

“This is a place where youth can work for a year in an environment that understands where they’re coming from,” Kammerer said.

She met business partner Ben Griswold when a friend invited him to one of the monthly community nights she hosts at her house. As a fellow coffee snob, Powderhorn neighbor, home roaster and financial analyst, Griswold became an ideal business partner. He was also interested in the busi-

After traveling and eating at vegan restaurants across the country, Heather Klein saw Minneapolis differently.

“When I came back, there really was nothing here at the time,” she said.

She reached out to vegan Facebook friends and discovered that Robbie Sims was looking to open a vegan restaurant.

“Robbie and I really wanted to give it a go,” she said.

They’ve been catering and throwing pop-up events over the past year, and they have five weddings booked for the summer.

For the farmers markets, they’re bringing vegan Drunken Noodles and Tofu Hash. The Love Ball Subs are made with lentils, walnut, hemp, flax, buckwheat and quinoa, slightly cooked and mashed together with spices, onions and garlic on a fried pita. They’re also bringing Walking Tacos — lentil and walnut taco “meat” served on corn chips with pico, cashew nacho cheese and cabbage.

Both co-founders live in North Minneapolis and they cook at Appetite For Change, a North Minneapolis nonprofit with an incubator kitchen for startups.

In the future they would like to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant and stock their products at grocery stores.

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Dulce Monterrubio makes garibaldi treats she enjoyed as a girl in Mexico City: small pound cakes infused with guava jam and covered in nonpareils.

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Dulce Monterrubio (her name translates “sweet” in Spanish) is sharing her abuelita’s recipes.

“My dream was to really make Mexican pastries that also push the boundaries of cultural awareness,” she said.

She makes conchas, a sweet bread topped with sugar that’s made to emulate a seashell and filled with chocolate, vanilla or dulce

de leche. She makes Frida Kahlo cake pops.

She makes garibaldis, buttery pound cakes filled with guava jam and rolled in nonpareils, styled after the cakes she bought as a girl from the El Globo bakery in Mexico City.

And she makes pineapple empanadas using her grandmother’s homemade dough recipe.

“I’ve been getting a lot of orders from the neighborhood,” said Monterrubio, who lives in the Standish neighborhood. “I’ve been baking nonstop every day since January.”

In Mexico City, Monterrubio worked with kids at the YMCA who had special needs or battled cancer. She immigrated to the U.S. in 2000 to study on scholarship at Augsburg College.

“Life happened. I stayed, met somebody, had kids, and continued working at Augsburg with students like me,” she said.

Her life took a turn during a student trip in 2012. She was physically assaulted and spent a month at home in recovery.

“It became my therapy, just to bake at home,” she said. “At some point I dreamed of opening my bakery.”

Monterrubio hopes that sharing Mexican cookies and pastries will help address the current political climate. She said that, until now, she never felt afraid to speak Spanish in public.

“This is a way for me to build bridges,” she said. “We are different and it’s okay to be different. Get to know us through our pastries.”

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A byproduct of moto-i’s sake brewing process is providing the kasu base that’s fermenting vegetables new to the farmers market this year.

Jim Bovino, an Armatage resident and one of the early minds behind Gyst, is exploring Asian techniques and other fermentation methods at his new business Topos Ferments.

“Fermentation is a very old method of preservation,” he said.

By increasing the acidity of vegetables, he said, it creates a stable environment in which bad bacteria can’t exist.

Microbes can sanitize food without a lot of fancy equipment, he said. And the methods don’t require additives, heat, canning, freezing, or other energy inputs.

And Bovino promises that the end results — like watermelon radish — will be delicious.

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By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

Kenwood volunteer honored for weeding garden beds Dave Schaenzer had a simple reason for caring for the garden beds on the west side of Lake of the Isles.

“I figured I paid for the beds,” he said of the shrubs, which the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board planted. “I might as well take care of them.”

So about 10 years ago, Schaenzer began weeding them, starting with one several blocks from his Kenwood home. The Medtronic engineer weeded and added mulch to a total of eight beds on the west side of the lake over the course of a couple years.

His work caught the attention of the Park Board, which became curious as to the identity of the mystery gardener. The board did an inventory of the beds around the lakes at one point and was surprised at how few weeds were in the beds on the west side of Lake of the Isles, according to Environmental Stewardship Volunteer Coordinator Sherry Brooks.

“At that point, we really didn’t know what was going on,” Brooks said. “Nobody really knew who it was. … There were just these rumors.”

One rumor said the anonymous volunteer was a math professor at the University of Minnesota, according to Brooks. Another said the volunteer was a retiree. A third said he was an engineer.

The mystery ended in 2012, when Schaenzer signed up to be a park steward for the garden beds on the west side of Lake of the Isles. The agreement gave him access to mulch delivery from the city, something he’d previously done on his own.

It’s not unusual for Schaenzer to spend up to 20 hours a week weeding and hand-pruning

Kenwood resident Dave Schaenzer was honored by the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board last month for his work caring for garden beds around Lake of the Isles. Photo

by Nate Gotlieb

roses and junipers. He also spreads more than 10 yards of wood mulch each season.

“He’s had a nice effect on the entire lake,” Brooks said, noting subsequent efforts to care for Peavy Fountain on the north edge of Lake of the Isles and another garden bed near Lake Calhoun.

Jeanette Colby, president of the Kenwood Isles Area Association, said she appreciates Schaenzer’s willingness to make his community a better place.

“With parks, I think it really matters that

people have some ownership and just feel empowered to do it, which is what I love about what Dave did,” Colby said. “He’s had a great impact on the aesthetics of the area, and I think it was probably a good experience for him, too.”

Schaenzer, who moved to Kenwood in 2001, grew up with parents who gardened and had fruit trees in their yard. It didn’t hurt either that Schaenzer’s family instructed the self-proclaimed early riser to keep the in-house noise levels down early in the mornings.

The Park Board recognized Schaenzer’s efforts last month by awarding him a volunteer of the year award. The agency also honored the Park Siding Park/Calhoun-Isles-Dean Neighborhood Association gardeners group, which is entering its 21st year as garden stewards at Park Siding Park.

The Park Board recognized seven individuals and three groups at the ceremony. A donation of $500 will be made to the park program where each of the honorees volunteers.

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Park Board approves Lake Calhoun name change Official renaming to Bde Maka Ska will require additional approvals

Park commissioners recently approved the restoration of Lake Calhoun’s Dakota name, a step that may lead to an official name change.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s 6-0 vote came as part of the Calhoun/ Bde Maka Ska-Harriet Master Plan, a roadmap for improvements to parkland over the next 25 years. Though the board lacks the authority to officially change the name of the lake to Bde Maka Ska, commissioners are advocating for Hennepin County, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and any other forum to approve the name.

The support comes after several years of campaigning from residents, activists and Native American groups to drop the name of John C. Calhoun, a former vice president and proponent of slavery. Recently, Yale University dropped Calhoun’s name from a residential college.

The board has previously recognized the Dakota name with updated signage around the Southwest Minneapolis lake. Bde Maka Ska, which is pronounced “b-day ma-kha skah” according to the Dakota Language Society, means “White Earth Lake” in Dakota.

District 6 Commissioner Brad Bourn, who represents much of the area around the lake, said the measure was a “fitting tribute” to the

Civil War veterans buried in Lakewood Cemetery, people persecuted during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and people who want to create a more inclusive park system.

“This is one of the best things we can do to start healing some of those wounds that are more than 150 years old in our history,” he said.

“To all the people that have come forward to work on this issue over the years, over 100-plus years: Thank you. This isn’t the Park Board’s motion. This is your motion. Thank you. This is the most important thing on the Park Board that I’ve ever been a part of.”

The measure raises the question of whether private businesses and other parties will remove Calhoun from their titles. One business, ECCO’s Perennial Cycle, has already dropped the lake’s name. The board’s vote will not change the name of nearby streets like Calhoun Parkway, East Calhoun Parkway and West Calhoun Parkway due to public safety issues, the board said in a statement.

If the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners approves the name change, it would then move to the DNR to drop the lake’s name for Bde Maka Ska. The DNR would then submit an appeal to the U.S. Board of Geographic Names for final approval, according to the Park Board.

The Park Board has acknowledged Lake Calhoun’s Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska, in signage since 2015. Photos by Eric Best

The name change came up as part of a recommendation from the board’s Community Advisory Committee, a 26-member group of appointed residents that helped craft the Calhoun/Bde Maka Ska-Harriet Master Plan.

The document plans and prioritizes an estimated $126 million in potential short-term and long-term improvements to the area, likely the most visited regional park in the state with an estimated 5 million visits annually.

The board has already allocated $3.7 million to improve trails and accessibility around the two lakes and will complete the work this summer.

Trails are the most used part of the park, as about four in five visitors come for the trails.

The plan, which acts as a wish list for the board to identify park projects, also calls for relocating the boat launches, sailing school and club facilities away from the northeast corner of

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At Lake Harriet, the plan includes the relocation of a bicycle trail to the perimeter around the Lake Harriet Bandshell and building a pier over the lake. It also lays the groundwork to convert the lower road of Lake Harriet Parkway on the lake’s east side to a two-way bike trail.

The Park Board, City of Minneapolis and members of the Dakota community are planning a public art project to honor Cloud Man, or Mahpiya Wicasta, and Cloud Man Village, a settlement that was on the east side of the lake.

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the federal nutrition standards for meals and snacks and specific goals for nutrition promotion, education and physical activity.

The department is requiring districts to be in compliance by June 30.

Debate over recess The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Minnesota Department Education both encourage schools to require at least 20 minutes of daily recess as part of an effort to get kids 60 minutes of daily physical activity. Research shows a direct relationship between physical activity and learning and that sacrificing recess time for increased classroom instruction does not improve academic performance, according to an MDE recess toolkit.

Minneapolis Superintendent Ed Graff recommended requiring 20 minutes of daily recess in an initial draft of the wellness policy. It’s a requirement that a majority of MPS schools already meet, Graff said in January, although some split their recess periods into 10-minute slots.

However, the School Board Policy Committee amended the policy at its April meeting to require a minimum of 30 minutes of recess.

“There should be no reason why my children get 30 minutes while children over here on the North Side do not,” School Board Member Ira Jourdain, who represents portions of Southwest Minneapolis, said at the board’s May 9 meeting. “For me, this is a moral and ethical issue, and it’s something that just needs to be done.”

District staff members have cautioned the board that a 30-minute policy could have financial implications. Teachers typically take their duty-free lunch during recess, Chief of Schools Michael Thomas, and schools would potentially need to adjust to

cover the additional recess time.

Based on projections, it would cost about $2.4 million to add an additional half an hour for classroom teachers and just under $500,000 for support staff, Thomas said.

In addition, many schools do not have the facilities to offer 30 minutes of recess, Program Specialist for Physical Education and Health Sarah Loch said at the April School Board Policy Committee meeting.

Many do not have the equipment support for a 30-minute recess requirement, she said.

Graff suggested at the May 9 meeting a policy that would keep the 20 minutes of recess and allow schools to find an additional 10 minutes somewhere during the day. School Board member Kim Ellison appeared to agree, saying later in the meeting that she planned to introduce an amendment in June that would call for 30 minutes of recess throughout the day but not necessarily in one block.

Board members firm Several School Board members appeared firm in their support of 30 minutes of continuous recess, however. Jourdain said recess is an issue of racial equity, saying that studies have shown that 30 minutes of recess decreases emotional and behavioral disorder referrals and behavioral concerns.

Board Member KerryJo Felder, who represents North Minneapolis, said kids are overtested and asked what it would look like if the district carved out the 10 minutes by cutting down on testing.

Board Member Siad Ali said he’s heard from parents that recess is good for their children, and he cited research on the benefits of it. Board Chair Rebecca Gagnon said it’s important to think about kids who don’t have opportunities for play outside of the school day in the conversation about recess.

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recess time could create but didn’t understand why it would cost more. He said he hoped to get more information on the financial impact of recess so he could make an informed vote.

Ellison advocated allowing the schools to institute recess policies that work for them, noting the district’s strategic plan, which says, “schools are the unit of change.”

She cited her recent visit to a North Minneapolis school, where she was told that requiring 30 minutes of recess would be detrimental to the school’s needs.

“We can’t say schools are the unit of change and then tell them how they need to operate their day,” she said.

Defining the school day The USDA standards require food items to meet certain whole grain, fruit, vegetable, dairy or protein requirements as well as nutrient standards for calories, sodium, sugar and fats. They would apply to food and beverages offered through the district’s school meal program as well as school stores, fundraising activities and vending machines, under the updated wellness policy.

The district’s meal program is already in full compliance with USDA’s nutrition guidelines, according to Bertrand Weber, director of Culinary and Wellness Services.

It has no intention of rolling back any of its standards, despite a recent relaxing of rules on sodium, whole grains and milk by the Trump administration, Weber said.

The updated wellness policy would also codify the amount of time required for service and eating of meals — 20 minutes for elementary and K–8 schools and 30 minutes for middle and high schools. It would reinforce the district’s prohibition on bringing food to school for personal celebrations and would prohibit schools from denying or requiring physical activity

or denying or delaying meals as responses to inappropriate behavior.

It would also require unrestricted access to water during meal periods and adequate bicycle storage at schools and encourage parents, students and staff to bike or walk to and from school as well as at school.

More than a dozen schools in the district have bike fleets, according to Jenny Bordon, the district’s safe routes to school specialist.

She said 44 schools hosted Walk and Bike to School Day events during MPS Wellness Week earlier this month.

The School Board is scheduled to vote on the updated wellness policy on June 13, its last scheduled business meeting of the 2016–2017 school year.

PROPOSED CHANGES TO MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS WELLNESS POLICY Requiring a minimum of 30 minutes of daily recess at all elementary schools.

Requiring all food and drink offered or sold during the school day to comply with federal nutrition standards.

Defining the school day as from midnight to 30 minutes after dismissal.

Prohibiting schools from using physical activity or delaying or denying meals as a response to inappropriate behavior.

Requiring 20 minutes for service and eating of meals at elementary schools and 30 minutes at middle and high schools.

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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Linden Hills Festival set for May 21

Windom School fifth graders perform ballroom dance at the community event Tots Rock in March. Photo by TMOR Photography

Windom fifth-graders learn ballroom Fifth-graders in the new ballroom dance program at Windom Dual Immersion School took second place in competition this month, but they played a crucial role in another team’s performance, as well.

“They didn’t have enough gentlemen that day,” said Ember Reichgott Junge, former state senator and co-founder of Heart of Dance.

Reichgott Junge said two Windom boys helped fill in the gaps for the Northeast charter school Learning For Leadership.

“They helped the team to win first place,” she said.

The Windom Community Council provided $6,000 to fund the program’s first year.

Heart of Dance is a Midwest nonprofit modeled after the New York program

Dancing Classrooms. (The subject of the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom.) Reichgott Junge said they focus on fifth-graders, because it’s an age where kids are willing to try new things and they’re not old enough to feel too self-conscious. The program teaches respect, teamwork and elegance.

“For us, elegance is about your self-confidence, your stature,” she said.

She said ballroom dance also teaches discipline and respect among genders and cultures.

At Field Community School, staff incorporates the program into the social studies curriculum and teaches the cultural origins of the dances. Stonebridge World School also teaches ballroom dance.

To see the kids in action, watch the video at heartofdancemn.org. (The first student speaker is from Windom.)

CARAG neighborhood offers plant-buying grants The Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG) is offering up to $50 grants for the purchase of pollinator-friendly plants.

Suggested native plants include wild geranium, columbine, milkweed, purple coneflower, showy goldenrod, garden phlox and black-eyed Susan.

Priority is given to applicants who did not receive a grant in 2016.

For more information, visit carag.org.

The Linden Hills Neighborhood Council hosts the 43rd-annual Linden Hills Festival 11 a.m.–5 p.m. May 21 at Linden Hills Park.

The Linden Hills Farmer's Market will join the event for the first time this year. There will also be a beer garden for the first time and local food vendors such as Tilia, Upton 43, Clancey’s Meats & Fish, Kata Organic Cafe, Terzo, Red Wagon Pizza, Drew’s Donuts and Sebastian Joe’s.

LHiNC member Steve Birch, who led the planning effort, said both the council and the farmer's market saw the event as an opportunity to drive traffic. The farmer's market will be set up 9 a.m.–1 p.m. at the park.

Birch said the council changed the layout of the festival this year in the hopes of driving more people toward the ball fields at the park. It also increased the number of bouncies and inflatables and simplified the ticket structure, he said.

The festival is one of two fundraisers the council hosts each year. It uses the proceeds to fund grants to local schools and community activates, such as the concert series at the Lake Harriet Bandshell. The council's goal is to give $10,000 in grants a year, Birch said.

The farmer's market will return to the Settergren’s parking lot on 43rd Street for the rest of the season after the 21st.

Visit lindenhills.org/festival for more information on the festival.

SPRING GARAGE SALE DATES Several neighborhoods are hosting community-wide garage sales this spring. Visit neighborhood websites for details.

Saturday, May 20 Hale-Page-Diamond Lake Neighborhood Garage Sale, 8 a.m.–4 p.m., hpdl.org Kingfield Yard Sale Extravaganza, 9 a.m.–2 p.m., kingfield.org East Harriet Sale-O-Rama Garage & Yard Sales, 9 a.m.–3 p.m., eastharriet.org Linden Hills Garage Sales, 8 a.m.–2 p.m., lindenhills.org Saturday, June 3 Armatage & Kenny Neighborhoodwide Garage Sales, 8 a.m.–4 p.m., armatage.org, kennyneighborhood.org East Calhoun Super Sale, 9 a.m.–3 p.m., eastcalhoun.org Saturday, June 17 Nokomis East Garage Sales, 8 a.m.–4 p.m., nokomiseast.org

—Nate Gotlieb

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Preserving anything but tradition Beth Dooley and Mette Nielsen’s “Savory Sweet” takes a modern approach to preserving

By Dylan Thomas dthomas@southwestjournal.com

W

hen author Beth Dooley was working on her 2013 book, “Minnesota’s Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook,” she and photographer Mette Nielsen scoured local farmers markets for whatever was fresh and in season, hauling home piles of produce to concoct their recipes.

Inevitably, there were leftovers — nothing new for Dooley, who admits to a habit of overbuying at the farmers market.

“We were like, ‘We should do a preserving book, because we’ve got to figure out what to do with all this stuff,’” she recalled.

The result, published this spring by University of Minnesota Press, is “Savory Sweet: Simple Preserves from a Northern Kitchen,” a preserving book that dispenses with tradition.

This is not old-fashioned canning, the laborious process that filled farmhouse kitchens with steam and pantries with sustenance for a long winter. The book preaches a faster, simpler approach to preserves that takes advantage of modern conveniences and delights in unexpected flavor combinations.

“Savory Sweet” is premised not on the old problem of scarcity but the new problem of overabundance. Instead of guiltily adding uneaten vegetables to the organics recycling bin, it suggests, turn them into delicious relishes, chutneys, mustards and marmalades that concentrate and enhance the flavors of our local produce.

Dooley and Nielsen recently sat down to talk about the book at Nielsen’s house in Seward — or, rather, the new, two-story accessory dwelling unit in Nielsen’s backyard, which includes a sleekly designed modern kitchen on its first floor. The kitchen was filled with natural light from a bank of windows overlooking Nielsen’s backyard, an average-sized Minneapolis plot supporting a way above average number of vegetable beds, herb patches and fruit-bearing bushes and trees, which were just coming into flower then, in mid-April.

SEE SAVORY SWEET / PAGE B3

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RECIPES INSIDE

Sweet pickled winter squash

Blood orange marmalade

B2 May 18–31, 2017 / southwestjournal.com

By Meleah Maynard

Free seeds and raspberry growing tips

W

ow! It’s been a while since we’ve had such a gorgeous spring.

At least it seems that way to me, but maybe that’s because I’m trying harder than ever to notice and be grateful for all that is beautiful and wonderful about the world. It’s been a good antidote to the news, which seems to grow more surreal every day.

Here’s something positive: The Little Free Seed Library at my house (on the boulevard on the corner of 45th & Washburn) has been busier than ever this year. People have donated so many seeds I’ve had to put them out in batches because there isn’t enough room to hold them all.

This weekend, when we were out gardening, we lost count of the number of families who came by, often sitting down on the sidewalk together to sort through the seeds packets and decide what they wanted to take home.

“Mommy, make sure you get some red peppers,” one little boy yelled.

At suppertime, a teenage boy and his mother showed up because he had walked by earlier and seen that the library also included free seeds.

“I went home and told her that we had to come back because this is so cool,” he said.

All of this happiness made us happy too, so thank you to all of you joyful people who came by to get some seeds. And thank you, too, to everyone who has brought over seeds to share.

What’s in the Little Free Seed Library is always changing, but with all of the donations it’s safe to say that there is a huge supply of vegetable seeds, including several varieties of corn, peppers,

The Little Free Seed Library is literally bursting with seeds.

Come and get some. Photo

by Meleah Maynard

cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, squash and lettuce. There is also a variety of herb seeds, as well as a wide variety of flower seeds, including lupines, snap dragons, morning glories, zinnias, coreopsis, Shasta daisies, echinacea, moon flower, impatiens, delphinium, foxglove, four o’clocks, bachelor buttons and many more.

Growing raspberries My recent column about urban food forests (everydaygardener.com/support-urban-foodforests/) inspired some folks to add food to their gardens. Yay! Most people who emailed asked about raspberries, wondering, particularly, how to prune them properly. I figure others might be wondering this too, so here are some pruning tips that will help you get more fruit on healthier, happier plants.

Raspberries are easy to grow, and they don’t

have to be a big, floppy mess. So don’t fear adding them to you gardens.

While plants are perennials, raspberry canes live for only two years, and it’s important to understand their life cycle.

The first year’s canes (primocanes) green up and form fruiting buds. If you plant a summerbearing variety, those buds won’t flower and fruit until the second year.

If you plant an ever-bearing variety, the tips of the primocanes will produce a little bit of fruit in the late summer and fall and then more fruit lower on the canes the next year. (Really, they would be more aptly known as two-crop plants rather than ever-bearing.)

Anyway, second-year canes are called floricanes. Summer-bearing floricanes die once they produce fruit and so do ever-bearing floricanes.

So, two years = cane death for both types. The difference is that you get one big crop out of the former and two crops, one small and one bigger,

out of the latter.

While all of this is going on, new canes grow up from the ground every year, so you can wind up with a whole lot of unruly canes if you don’t get to pruning. I don’t have raspberries anymore, but when I did, I liked to prune them when I knew they were done fruiting, usually late summer or fall because it kept them looking neater. Others like to wait until late winter. You’ll find out what works best for you.

When you do prune, the first thing to do is cut down to the ground all canes that are two years old. How can you tell? They are dying and or dead and they pretty much look it with graying bark and lateral branches with remnants of fruiting on them.

Next, cut to the ground any canes that are wandering all around outside the bounds of where you want to grow them. Also remove enough new canes so you have some space (about 6 inches) between them. That’ll give everybody the space needed to produce fruit and stave off diseases.

Last, keep all of the canes pruned to about 5-feet tall. That will keep them from flopping over. For ever-bearing floricanes (second year), cut them back to just below where they fruited the previous fall.

I hope this helps. When I had more sun and a larger lot, I loved growing raspberries, and I hope you do too.

Check out Meleah’s blog, everydaygardener.com, for more gardening tips or to email her a question or comment.

southwestjournal.com / May 18–31, 2017 B3

Sweet pickled winter squash Makes about 4 half-pints

This unusual pickle has a fine, firm texture and sweet, zesty flavor.

Ingredients 1 cup cider vinegar 1 cup water ½ cup lime juice 1 tablespoon finely grated lime zest 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes ½ cup sugar 1¼ pounds butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and medium-diced (4 cups) 1-inch piece ginger, peeled and thinly sliced 1 teaspoon whole allspice 1 teaspoon black peppercorns

FROM SAVORY SWEET / PAGE B1

The rest of Nielsen’s gardens seemed preternaturally advanced for the season. The leafy greens growing near the path to her front door looked almost ready for the salad bowl. Some of what she grows over the course of a summer ends up at nearby Birchwood Cafe, where she also tends a small kitchen garden of herbs, fruit and edible flowers.

Nielsen’s incredible talent as a grower (she is a master gardener) was another inspiration for the book. This time, she crafted the recipes with Dooley in addition to taking photos.

“You can only eat so much fresh, you can only give so much away, so you’ve got to preserve it if you can find a simple way of doing it,” Nielsen said.

She prepared a small spread of local cheeses, Red Table Meat Co. salami and toasted baguette slices to accompany an array of her homemade preserves. Among them was blood orange marmalade made from a recipe in the book; it included vanilla bean to smooth the spiky tartness of the citrus and chili that punctuated the complex flavor with a late-arriving hint of spice.

Directions Combine the vinegar, water, lime juice, lime zest, crushed red pepper flakes, and sugar in a small sauce pan. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Allow the liquid to cool, then pour it into a large stainless or glass bowl. Add the squash cubes, and mix until the squash is well coated. Cover the bowl, and let the squash macerate at room temperature for 8 hours, or overnight.

Drain the liquid from the bowl into a 10inch sauté pan. Put the ginger, allspice, and peppercorns into a spice bag, or tie them in a square of cheese cloth, and put it in the pan. Over medium-high heat, bring the liquid a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the squash, cover, and simmer until the pieces start to turn translucent around

Her gardens wouldn’t deliver their full bounty for months. And yet, here on her table was a lovely, garnet-red coulis made from black currants, tasting as bright as summer itself.

Nielsen, who grew up in Denmark and moved to Minneapolis in her 20s, comes up with some surprising and creative uses for vegetables that are pantry staples in those northern climes — like parsnips paired with grapefruit in a relish spiced with jalapeno, garlic, ginger, coriander and mustard seed.

“The whole point of the book is to think about savory and about sweet at the same time when you’re making condiments,” Dooley said.

“This is one of the hallmarks of Scandinavian or northern climate cooking. The food is so plain that, because we don’t have access to all these fresh herbs all year long or all these wonderful citruses and things like that, you put things up but make them super-intense, so they can swing both savory or sweet.

“You can put it on your toast in the morning or you can have it with your chicken at night.

You can take a really simple meal and you can really fire it up using these.”

the edges and are just softened but firm, about 30 minutes. Remove and discard the spice bag.

Wash the jars, lids, and bands in very hot soapy water, rinse them well, and place them upside down on a clean towel to drain.

Spoon the squash and syrup into the jars, leaving a half inch of headroom to allow for expansion during freezing.

Cover each jar with a square of wax paper slightly larger than the jar opening, fold in the corners with a clean spoon, and gently push down so some of the syrup comes up over the wax paper.

Wipe the rims with a clean wet cloth or paper towel, add the lids and bands, and finger tighten the bands.

Label the jars. Cool completely before tightening the bands and storing the jars in the refrigerator or freezer.

You can only eat so much fresh, you can only give so much away, so you’ve got to preserve it if you can find a simple way of doing it.

— Mette Nielsen, photographer

Nielsen prepares her preserves in small batches, not mass quantities. And they aren’t preserves in the traditional sense, or not exactly; they live in the refrigerator or freezer, not the pantry.

“I was reading all these recipes and I wanted to cut way down on the sugar or add fresh herbs or do all these (other) things, and these were all the things the traditional books told us were not

safe,” Nielsen said. “So, I’m like, this is the 21st century. We have refrigeration.”

Relying on the refrigerator removes two of the major barriers to canning for beginners: the laborious process of boiling, sealing and sterilizing preserves and the worry that, if it isn’t done perfectly, botulism will spoil the work.

“It seems silly, especially in the heat of August, to be standing over a hot stove stirring and making stuff bubble and having to spend all afternoon when you’d rather be out at the beach,” Dooley said.

Their approach also cuts down on the equipment required for making preserves. Nielsen said her most important tool was a 10-inch stainless steel sauté pan — the kind found in most home cooks’ kitchens — which she used to prepare every recipe.

“I always say, I have nothing against traditional canning books, I just don’t want to do it that way,” Nielsen said. “We’re trying to offer an alternative.”

Blood orange marmalade with vanilla and chili Makes 5 to 6 half-pints Ingredients 2 pounds organic blood oranges 4 cups water 1½ cups sugar 1 vanilla bean 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes Directions Scrub the oranges well under running water, and remove the hard blossom ends and any blemishes on the skin. Cut the fruit in half lengthwise, and then slice it crosswise into very thin half-moons.

Remove and discard seeds as you go.

Put the orange slices in a 10-inch sauté pan with the water. Cover the pan, and macerate the fruit at room temperature for 8 to 24 hours.

Place a small plate in freezer for the set test. Split the vanilla bean lengthwise, and scrape the seeds into the oranges.

Add the vanilla bean and the crushed red pepper flakes to the pan. Bring the marmalade to a gentle boil over mediumhigh heat, lower the heat, and cover the pan. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 30 minutes.

Stir in the sugar and continue simmering, uncovered and stirring occasionally, until the mixture looks sticky and thick, about 45 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and discard the vanilla bean. Do a set test.* If the marmalade isn’t thick enough, return the pan to the heat for a few minutes, and then repeat the test.

Wash the jars, lids, and bands in very hot soapy water, rinse them well, and place them upside down on a clean towel to drain.

Spoon the marmalade into the jars, leaving a half inch of headroom to allow for expansion during freezing. Wipe the rims with a clean wet cloth or paper towel, add the lids and bands, and finger tighten the bands.

Label the jars. Cool completely and tighten the bands before storing the jars in the refrigerator or freezer. *Put a plate in the freezer before starting the recipe. For the set test, remove the frozen plate, place a dab of marmalade in the center and return it to the freezer for a couple minutes. Remove the plate and run your finger through the marmalade; if the mark stays, the marmalade is thick enough. Otherwise, keep cooking.

B4 May 18–31, 2017 / southwestjournal.com

By Rebecca Lee

Looking forward to a season of Saturdays

S

aturdays spent at the Fulton Farmers Market are Saturdays done right.

The six-month-long season of this great neighborhood market begins 8:30 a.m.

May 20. Don’t miss a single opportunity to shop local and connect with your community this season. It will go by faster than you think.

Need something to do on a Saturday morning with kids in tow? Fulton’s layout and aisles leave plenty of space for families with strollers and little ones who want to run around, as well as for older folks and people who just want to take their time and relax.

All season long, enjoy story time at 9:30 a.m. followed by live music at 10 a.m., along with weekly kids activities, cooking demos and samples of market veggies. For a full list of exciting events, visit our website calendar.

There’s much to discover at the market this year, with a wide variety of vendors attending the market throughout the season. Say hello to the many familiar faces amongst the returning farmers and small businesses and give a warm welcome to a great group of brand new vendors.

The vendor lineup is a little different every week. Sign up for our e-newsletters at neighborhoodrootsmn.org to receive a weekly list of vendors who will be at the market — or just show up and be pleasantly surprised.

The fruit and vegetable selection at the market this season will be better than ever with produce from new agricultural vendors Twin Organics, Turtle Hare Farm and Dahl Hobby Farm. Don’t miss out on spring greens and

The Fulton Farmers Market opens for the season May 20. File photo

pea shoots from Turtle Hare, beautiful certified organic produce from Twin Organics and seasonal fruits from Dahl Hobby Farm.

Pollinator Works will be joining the market for the first few weeks of the season and bringing a wide selection of perennial plant starts and native plants. Pick up butterfly weed, hibiscus, wild petunia and more to plant in your garden and make your yard pollinator friendly.

To deck your garden out even more, purchase bee tea cups from Rose Werks, a new craft vendor who will have tea cup sculptures and a mix of “bee tea” to attract pollinators to your yard.

Several new sauces and condiments will be in the vendor line-up this season.

Korean hot sauce from K-Mama Sauce is perfect for adding flavor to stir fries, rice bowls,

grilled meats and sandwiches.

Darling Pickle Dips will be debuting their signature product, a tasty dip of white beans blended with cream cheese and mixed with sprinkling of pickled vegetables. Pair it with fresh veggies from the market for a delicious, healthy snack.

Treat your sweet tooth with perfectly smooth chocolate sauce from Sunday Best Chocolate. It’s great as a topping for seasonal fruit or ice cream.

Local snacks are where it’s at. Sweet and savory flavored popcorn from Hip Pop is sure to become a new market favorite. Pickled veggies and mushroom jerky from Best Cellar Pickle Co. provide fresh, healthy snacking options for kids and adults alike.

North Star Botanicals will be joining the

market this season with handmade soaps, salves, tinctures and body care products.

Customers looking for healthy lunch options will be happy to see Kata Cafe at the market this season. Leafy salads and sandwiches make for a perfect, family-friendly summer lunch. In the chillier weeks of spring and fall, don’t miss out on a cup of hot bone broth or mushroom broth from Taking Stock Foods.

Find Minnesota Knife Sharpening at the market the first Saturday of every month starting in July. Cooking is so much more fun when you are working with great tools. Bring your cutlery (carefully) to the market and get it sharpened right while you shop.

The sun is shining, the trees are green and the outdoor season of the Fulton Farmers Market is upon us once again. Don’t miss opening day and make shopping at this beautiful market part of your weekly summer routine.

Rebecca Lee is the market manager of Neighborhood Roots. She has worked for the markets since 2014.

FULTON FARMERS MARKET Where: 4901 Chowen Ave. S. When: 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m.; May 20–Oct. 28

southwestjournal.com / May 18–31, 2017 B5

Mill City Cooks

Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market

Eating our curds in May

SCRAMBLED EGG AND CHEESE CURD BRUSCHETTA

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resh cheese curds are one of the best parts about grocery shopping at farmers markets.

The fresh and squeaky bite-sized morsels are products of heating fresh milk and adding rennet (enzymes) that clot the milk. The milk continues to clot as it is cooked, and then it is pressed to produce solid curds and liquid whey.

At the Mill City Farmers Market, you can find cheese curds from several vendors, including traditional curds, herbed curds and even goat’s milk curds. Read more about the farms offering cheese curds at the market below:

A display of Cosmic Wheel Creamery curds.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery

Kappers’ Big Red Barn is a family-run dairy.

Kappers’ Big Red Barn New to the Mill City Farmers Market in 2017, Kappers’ Big Red Barn is family-run dairy in Chatfield. Bob and Jeanette Kappers, along with their three sons, milk 30 cows and sell cheese curds, heavy cream and whole, skim and chocolate milk at markets and also directly from their farm.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery is a “micro-dairy” part of Turnip Rock Farm in Clear Lake, Wis. Owners Josh Bryceson and Rama Hoffpauir make aged and fresh cheese from ten grass-fed Jersey cows. They focus on raw-milk aged cheeses made in small batches with a natural rind.

“People really taste the difference that the healthy diet of the cows and the careful handling of the milk makes. We are so proud of our cheese. We love going to farmers markets to see the look of surprise and delight that often comes over peoples’ faces when they taste the cheese!” said Rama Hoffpauir.

Ingredients 1 Tablespoon butter 9 eggs fresh chives sea salt, to taste black pepper, to taste 1 bag of fresh cheese curds from Singing Hills Goat Dairy or Kappers Big Red Barn (I love the dill-flavored ones from Singing Hills) 1 baguette from Salty Tart or Heritage Breads (maybe 2, be prepared) 1 lb spring vegetables (asparagus, fiddle heads, green onions, ramps, etc.), grilled and cut into small pieces

Directions Singing Hills dill-flavored curds.

Singing Hills Goat Dairy Singing Hills Goat Dairy is a 25-acre farm in Nerstrand. Owner Lynne Reeck milks 25–30 does of mixed Saanen, Nubian and Alpine goats. With this milk, she makes fresh goat cheeses including feta, chevre and curds, offering a variety of seasonal flavors and even whey-fed pork products.

Find all of these fresh cheese curds, eggs and all the other seasonal ingredients you need to make scrambled egg and cheese curd bruschetta 8 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday at the Mill City Farmers Market. Plus, enjoy a free Mill City Cooks cooking demo with professional chefs and seasonal ingredients at 10:30 a.m. in the market’s Train Shed patio. More information is at millcityfarmersmarket.org. — Jenny Heck

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In a medium sized bowl, break eggs and whisk with a fork or an actual whisk.

The fork is what I reach for, as it’s easier to clean. Heat a nonstick pan or wellseasoned cast iron pan on medium heat.

Add the butter, and let it melt around the pan. Add eggs, cover and turn pan down to low for 1 minute. Uncover and add chives, salt and black pepper. Stir gently with a spatula. I like mine soft, others like them firm. Add the cheese curds and cover. Cook for 1 more minute. Do not overcook. Cut the bread in half the long way and grill, cut side down. Cut the halves into slices and rub with garlic if you like. Spoon the egg and cheese mixture on top of the bread and add grilled vegetables.

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Have mercy

By Carla Waldemar

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The restaurant of Le Meridien Chambers, the hip hotel on Hennepin Avenue, couldn’t make it under the reign of the d’Amicos nor with Jean-Georges’ bold-name allure. The next occupant, the health-forward Marin, closed, too, in February.

Now its chef is back in the saddle at Mercy, debuting in the nowfamiliar space as a “Southern seafood concept,” according to our excellent server, whom I’d be happy to nominate as poster girl for the industry.

Will this new thrust stick? Let’s wait and see.

To hedge his bet, Chef Mike Rakun also has incorporated a menu section entitled “Steaks on a Plate” (as one would hope), $24–$88, requiring additions from a list of sides to complete the meal. But we came for the seafood.

We started with the apps list’s ($7–$13) crab empanadas, a quartet of petite turnovers stuffed with cream cheese, mozzarella and bits of sweet, come-hither crab meat to dip in a sweet chili

sauce. They’re longer on the rich, bland cheeses than actual crab, reminiscent of Leeann Chin’s signature wontons.

Next, a pair of oyster po’ boys built of lettuce, tomato and mayo gussying up a slim, cornmeal-crusted fried oyster residing in a generous, sesame-coated bun. Those addicted to oysters (count me among you) are better off ordering them raw from the separate menu.

Other seafood starters range from shrimp and octopus ceviche to calamari and Paco fish ribs. (Yes, we asked: flaky white flesh from the Pacific.) Or look to the menu’s middle-column offerings ($8–$10) where lobster-corn chowder heads the list of soups and salads.

Instead, we proceeded to the entrees (eight listed, from a $21 fish fry starring black sea bass to a $38 roasted lobster).

Scallops — yes! This had been my favorite at the chef’s former Marin. This round, the composition favors three large, sweet and quivery-tender medallions on a plate paved with spinach and

bits of portobellos in a (greasy, over-abundant) bacon vinaigrette. Croutons of robustly 901 Hennepin Ave. bodied grits complete the sorta252-7000 Southern slant. mercympls.com Speaking of which: next up, an immense, super-flavorful and well-timed pork chop (OK, fatty, too) sided with braised greens spangled with smoked hock bits and a couple of hush puppies — hushed too long before serving, perhaps, for they proved more solid than pliant in body. Or go for the beer-can chicken with dirty rice or duck breast with pot stickers and ginger-orange sauce.

(From Southern what? Beijing?)

No room for dessert, but a peek at the list ($4–$16) revealed that, of the seven choices, all are ice cream or sorbet except these: tiramisu and Key lime pie. Oh, wait: They’re both sided with ice cream, too.

MERCY

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recently had the opportunity to test out two products available from Verizon Wireless, among other locations: the Canary security system, a video camera with motion alerts, and the Ring Video Doorbell, which is a one-way video, two-way audio doorbell system.

Canary has been on my wish list for quite some time, so when Verizon Wireless offered for me to try it out, I was looking forward to it. I already have a couple of IP cameras (wirelessly connected cameras) in my house, but the Canary is a security device, not simply a camera.

The Canary requires an Internet connection. It has the usual HD camera with night vision and a 147-degree viewing angle with three times digital zoom.

Where the Canary begins to differentiate itself from other cameras is the built-in, 90-decibel siren and that it also tracks temperature, humidity and air quality. I could not pull that information to my Amazon Echo, so it appears to simply be useful information to know.

The Canary of course has native apps for both iOS (Apple) and Android smartphones.

What does it do? When I talk about it, I talk about it as a security system, not a camera system.

When opening the app, it does not automatically open to a live view of what the camera sees but rather a home page listing the environmental settings (temperature, humidity, air quality) with options to view live or view your timeline.

The timeline is pretty cool. Canary is set up to chirp at you (via your smartphone) when there is activity or motion in front of it. Other IP cameras can do motion detection, but they generally require some setup to enable that functionality. It also records a snippet of video around that notification so you can view, via your timeline, the video associated with the activity the camera saw.

Canary is a learning system and is supposed to have the ability to learn your schedule and automatically adjust the mode to home or away, but I have to admit it never thought I was home, so every movement in front of the camera triggered a notification. I have read that pets can trigger motion detection as well.

I had set my settings for when I was home to be private and not record video or give me notifications, but again, this didn’t work as set up.

According to Canary: “When set to private, Canary’s camera, microphone, and motion detection capabilities are fully disabled. Only temperature, humidity, and air quality information are uploaded to the Canary Cloud.”

Without membership, you get 24 hours of recorded video. With membership, starting at $9.99 per month, you get 30 days of stored video and reimbursement of your homeowners or renters insurance deductible up to $1,000 in case of a burglary, plus an extended two-year warranty for your Canary.

Unlike the Canary, the Ring Video Door-

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I was very impressed. It is the product that I didn’t know I wanted or needed.

What does a video doorbell do, you may ask?

When someone rings your doorbell, you are notified on your smartphone (Android and iOS) and have the option to view the ringer through the installed HD camera in the doorbell. It also provides two-way audio so you can ask them what they want if you don’t recognize them.

Mind you, you do not even need to be home to answer the ring. I could be out and my kids alone at home and the doorbell rings; I can answer it, send the ringer away and notify my kids via phone that they should not answer the door.

You can turn on motion detection and get a notification each time there is movement in front of your doorbell, and you can always look in live.

With a paid account of $3 per month, it provides the ability to have all of your alerted events recorded and viewable in a cloud account for up to 6 months, plus a one-year warranty. You can even download or share the events — useful if it recorded an activity outside your door that you’d like to share with police. The free account simply doesn’t record anything.

You need to spend an additional $30 for the Chime accessory if you want it to ring a sound in your home. It’s free if you just want the ring on your smartphone. However, it is fully compatible with the doorbell you may already have wired, and it can use that doorbell for inside notification.

One drawback that I found with Ring was that it needs charging, even when hardwired.

If it is hardwired to your existing doorbell chime, that will hopefully keep it charged.

But there is the following message on Ring’s website: “Note: Depending on usage and temperature, the power from the doorbell wires may not be enough to keep your Ring charged, and the battery percentage may drop slightly over time.”

From the forum posts I read, it sounds like you will have to take it inside to charge every once in awhile. Ring provides a proprietary screw and driver so that it cannot simply be removed by anyone who wants to steal it.

Unless you don’t mind a lot of false-alarm beeps, I would hold off on the Canary for now. But give the Ring Video Doorbell a try.

It provides a fun, new experience and added security to your front door entry.

Paul Burnstein is a Tech Handyman.

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have two friends who claim to be chocoholics. One time I overheard them discussing the delicacy.

The first one expounded on its complex textures, the difference between milk and dark, European vs. American, nuts or no nuts, cocoa percentages, how her taste buds react and chocolate’s health benefits. It sounded like a rehearsed marketing pitch, but she’s just a dedicated enthusiast. OK, maybe an obsessive.

She rattled off her list of favorites, and then she asked my other friend what kind of chocolates he liked.

He said, “I like them all.”

On a recent outing near Lake Minnetonka, I rounded a curve past the town of Excelsior and noticed a Hansel and Gretel-style cottage perched atop a hill. Luckily, I had a few moments to spare so I pulled a U-turn and drove up the hill.

Truffle Hill Chocolates opened in 1995.

Retail sales occupy the home’s former front hall and part of its living room. A kitchen faces out back. Everything is made on site.

A couple of 20-year-olds in summer lake attire followed me inside. They wasted no time, promptly ordering a jelly bean-topped birds nest and a pecan turtle. Must be zoology majors. I needed more time.

Truffle chocolates got their start in 1920s France when a chocolatier mixed the wrong ingredients together and a soft, round, blobby truffle mushroom-shape was the result. They became a hit.

The popular and expensive treats have chocolate ganache interiors, are usually covered with a hard shell and are often rolled in sugar, cocoa, nuts, decorative sprinkles or whatever strikes the maker’s fancy. There are those who believe in the strict, historic definition of what makes a truffle, but today it’s a pretty accepted term for any type of filled chocolate.

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you readers of Southwest Journal, I took home a sample box. I know — it’s a difficult part of my job.

Large display cases were filled with chocolate pieces of every shape and size, with beautifully embossed designs and patterns. Vanilla crème, raspberry, maple, mint, key lime, orange, Kahlua, Bailey’s Irish Cream, champagne — the list could fill this page.

They make chocolate-on-a-stick in the shapes of loons, fish, guitars, the Titanic and cows, and there are individual chocolate letters you can buy and spell out a name. Nearly everything comes in both dark and milk chocolate.

Peanut brittle and turtle popcorn round out the selection for those who need even more options. A small collection of notecards on a rack by the door reminds customers of that gift that’s been on their lists too long.

Later that night, when I opened my 4.5-by-7-inch box after dinner, we marveled not only at the lovely selection of chocolates but at the amazingly low price of only nine dollars. Truffle Hill Chocolates are delicious — and a deal. In a short while, the box was empty. Yes, we liked them all.

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Are shock collars humane?

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y opinion on whether or not shock collars are humane depends on the type of collar you are thinking about.

A shocking type of collar is used for all sorts of training purposes. Electric fences use a shock collar, bark collars come in a variety that uses a shock (as well as a variety that sprays citronella) and then there are shock collars in which a human delivers the shock. This last type of collar is commonly used when training hunting dogs. For example, if you are training a dog that is far away from you, sometimes a shock collar is used to shape behavior in the field.

In general, I believe that electric fence shock collars and bark collars that deliver a shock are a humane form of training. With these collars, the dog has control over whether or not they receive a shock. Once the dog has figured out that if they get too close to the perimeter of the yard they will get a shock or when they bark they get a shock, they learn to avoid the shock by changing their behavior.

Dogs can learn this very quickly. With the shock collars for barking, for example, sometimes the dog learns to not bark when they have the collar on after just one or two barks.

If you chose to use an electric fence collar or a bark collar, it is important that the dog not wear that collar all of the time. One reason is that sometimes we can see skin sores created

by where the prongs of the collar rub against the skin. Also, with the bark collar, it is important that dogs have times during the day when they are allowed to bark. Barking is a normal canine behavior and it shouldn’t be inhibited all of the time.

I have tried both electric fence collars and bark collars on myself — not because I enjoy inflicting pain on myself, but because I never want to put something on a dog meant to be used as an adverse stimuli without knowing what it feels like. I just thought that would be mean.

What I can tell you is that the shock doesn’t really feel painful. I would describe the sensation as very disconcerting and unpleasant.

For the type of shock collars in which the human is pushing a button and the dog gets a shock, I have found that many people use these collars inappropriately. When this happens, it becomes inhumane to the dog.

Most people are not intentionally trying to hurt their dog, but it is common for people to not know the right time to deliver a shock.

When using adverse stimuli to shape behavior, the shock needs to be given at the exact moment the unacceptable behavior is happening, and just for a short period of time.

If the shock is given at the inappropriate time, you are simply confusing your dog and not achieving your training goals.

There is a lot of opportunity for the human to mess things us with this type of training collar, and only people that really know what they are doing should use this type of shock collar.

A story from the vet clinic

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t is not uncommon for an animal to develop an aversion to going to the vet clinic. After all, when a patient comes to see us, we often poke them with needles, trim their claws, shine lights in their eyes and perform other obnoxious and sometimes uncomfortable procedures on them.

We try to make it up to our patients by giving lots of treats and petting, but sometimes an animal will still learn to be afraid at the clinic. This story is about when I had the opposite experience.

Michael and his dog Bubby* would come to see me a lot. Bubby had terrible allergies and would get secondary skin infections all of the time.

Bubby was a 10-year-old golden retriever.

Most golden retrievers are very effusive in their attention to people, but Bubby was not like that.

He was a very reserved guy, preferring to stay by his owner’s legs for most of his visits to see me.

One day, Michael brought Bubby in because one of his testicles had swollen up. When I saw Bubby that day the abnormal testicle was about the size of a softball. It was red, inflamed and obviously very painful.

We did an emergency neuter that night and when I removed the testicle I could see pus traveling up the testicular cords into the abdomen.

Bubby was very sick from his infection.

When we sent Bubby home with pain medications and antibiotics I warned Michael that

Bubby could get worse. If the infection went systemically, it was possible that he could die.

Bubby responded very well to our treatments and I saw Michael and Bubby back two weeks later for his post-operative check. Bubby ran into the exam room and started to lick my face. Never before had he interacted with me like that.

At that point I knew he realized that I was involved with taking away his pain. He knew that I helped him, and he wanted to show his appreciation in the best way a dog can, with body wagging and face licking.

I am lucky to have many dog and cat friends that visit me at the vet clinic. I am not ashamed to admit that most of those friendships have been achieved through bribery. I stuff cookies in the dog’s mouths and wave feathers on a stick to entertain the kitties.

Bubby could never be bought, which in the human world is the mark of a stand up guy. But Bubby really showed the strength of his character when he expressed gratitude after his ordeal.

Michael passed away last year, and Bubby shortly after, but I will always be thankful to them for giving me one of the coolest experiences of my life. *Names have been changed to protect privacy.

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These are the scenes that greeted volunteer garden evaluators when they visited a block on Oliver Avenue South last summer. Photos courtesy Metro Blooms

On this block, gardening is contagious Neighbors in Bryn Mawr are honored for Best Garden Block in the Minneapolis Garden Awards

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efore Oliver Avenue South dead-ends at Bassett Creek, the yards and boulevards grow increasingly lush with plant life — all the way up to Mark Smith’s house at the northern end of the block, where a tidy but full front yard blends into the wild woods beyond.

Last summer, volunteer garden evaluators for Metro Blooms decided the block — which they had visited frequently in the past — was something special. Smith and a handful of his neighbors were recognized this spring with the Best Garden Block award in the annual Minneapolis Garden Awards.

It was a surprise to Smith and everyone else who shared in the award, including Pat Thayer, who lives at the opposite end of the block, at the northwest corner of Oliver & Hawthorne.

“This block in particular, (gardening) has just been a contagious thing,” said Thayer, who moved into her home in the 1970s.

Behind a retaining wall, the retired teacher tends a front yard of small, sculptural trees and decorative grasses (but no lawn). Two small Scottish terrier statues guard the walkway leading to her front porch.

There’s no formal coordination between neighbors on Oliver Avenue, although there’s plenty of plant sharing up and down the block. Living on a dead end, you end up talking to everyone, Smith said, and the

There’s always been the opportunity to recognize something unique.

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Pat Thayer and Mark Smith live at opposite ends of their block in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood.

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gardening bug is catching.

For example, both Smith, who has lived on the block for more than two decades, and Thayer have planted larch trees in their front yards.

Thayer’s collection includes a weeping larch, and she and Smith recently admired the evergreen species’ characteristic long, drooping branches.

Thayer said when she bought it about seven

years ago “it was small, just a portion of its size … and its branches were dangling on the ground.”

She visited with Smith at his house the other end of the block and settled on building her tree some Japanese-style wooden supports, “and it decided not to dangle and instead shoot up,” Thayer said.

“I think it looks like a mammoth with its trunk

shooting up,” Smith said.

Thayer’s manicured backyard features three Japanese maples (tricky to grow in this climate), a 25-year-old Chinese maple she has trained like a bonsai, two magnolias and another larch.

In April, her lilies were in bloom, soon to be followed by the clematis and peonies.

“Some things grow, some things don’t,” she said. “I’m no master gardener.”

Neither is Smith, who wasn’t much of a gardener of any kind before buying his home. His new yard was lush but untamed, so he cut back some of the perennials and edited the collection he’d inherited. Today, hosta plants, peonies and black snakeroot surround a rain garden.

“I think I really started to get into it and enjoy it after about five years,” he said.

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Rob Harris, who lives next door to Smith, said the award “came out of left field.”

“We have never had a garden club or anything like that,” Harris said.

Like Smith, Harris bought a home first and became a gardener second. He spent his first summer tearing out weeds — 60 bags full — and then he started to enjoy himself.

He and Smith both describe a neighbor in her 80s as an inspiration. Harris said she “sets the

standard on the block,” prompting her younger neighbors to get out and get to work.

“She’s out here bent over in the heat of the midday sun,” Smith said.

The Minneapolis Garden Awards have been around for more than 30 years. The program started as Blooming Alleys and was run by the City of Minneapolis, but Metro Blooms took over with the formation of the nonprofit in 1983.

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“MIXTAPE” The cultural significance of hip-hop is at the center of “Mixtape,” a collaboration of seven Twin Cities dance artists with different perspectives on the genre. Together, the group explores the question of “What is hip hop?” They challenge commercial “hip hop” culture while reclaiming the movement and exploring its history. The lineup includes veteran hip-hop dancer J-Sun, who approaches dance with a critical lens; Al Taw'am, a pair of 18-year-old identical-twin Muslim sisters dancers who are the youngest winners of a Minnesota Sage Award for dance; and Magnolia Yang Sao Yia, a Hmong artist-activist who blends social justice and dance.

When: 7:30 p.m. May 19 and 20, 2 p.m. May 21 Cost: $20–$25

North Loop’s Form + Content Gallery presents an eclectic assortment of work by some of Minnesota's most acclaimed contemporary female artists. Known for her vivid, large-format images of engineered landscapes such as public parks, orchards and topiary gardens, photographer Lynn Geesaman’s work emphasizes composition and geometry. Shana Kaplow's paintings of everyday, common objects touch on themes of mass production and the connections between cultures, labor and domestic life, while Barbara Kreft utilizes repetition to create intricate patterns and multiple layers of paint to create depth in her abstract paintings.

Jantje Visscher's abstract photographs examine patterns of natural objects, such as water, shells and fish skin, and painter Valerie Jenkins uses abstract shapes and lines to explore how interpretation is shaped by perception.

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“‘GAMBATTE! LEGACY OF AN ENDURING SPIRIT’: JAPANESE AMERICAN WWII INCARCERATION, THEN & NOW” During World War II, the family of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Paul Kitagaki, Jr., was incarcerated in a Japanese internment camp. He later discovered that one of his favorite photographers, Dorothea Lange, had taken photos of his family in 1942 while they awaited a relocation bus in Oakland, California. This eventually led him to the National Archives, where he found photographs of his family and others interred in the camps taken by Lange and photojournalist Tom Parker. In “‘Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit’: Japanese American WWII Incarceration, Then & Now,” he has juxtaposed these historic photographs with contemporary portraits he took of the same individuals or their descendants. Also on display will be “Patriot Nations: Native Americans in Our Nation’s Armed Forces,” an exhibit that illustrates the history of the Native American and Alaska Native men and women who have served in the United States military (May 27–Aug. 12).

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Public urination is so common in one area of downtown Minneapolis that some refer to it as the “pee corner.”

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Nowhere to go Downtown is growing, but are public bathrooms lost in the mix?

By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

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t’s a predicament many in downtown Minneapolis have found themselves in.

You’re walking through the Central Business District and need to use the bathroom, but there’s none in sight. While banks, restaurants and parks have bathrooms, one might not be nearby, open or accessible to the non-paying public.

Even as a resident of Loring Park, Nick Magrino has found himself in the scramble.

“It’s such a basic thing to be walking around downtown. There are 50-story buildings and it’s very dense and in theory there’s a lot of stuff.

But to be there on a random Sunday as a tourist, there aren’t a ton of places to go,” Magrino said.

Given that downtown Minneapolis has seen record levels of real estate investment in recent years, including more than $3.4 billion in the past two years, the situation raises the question if restrooms been lost in the growth.

Ben Shardlow, the director of urban design at the Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District and Downtown Council, said a lack of bathrooms and public urination downtown have been common concerns of downtown stakeholders who’ve participated in the organization’s annual perception survey.

To get the ball rolling on the issue, DID funded a month-long pilot of a Little Free Lavatory in Peavey Plaza in 2015. Since then, the organization has partnered with Green Minneapolis to bring restrooms to the Commons in Downtown East.

The projects help correct an issue of mismatched facilities downtown: There are many facilities in downtown Minneapolis, just not near where people need them, Shardlow said. On top of that, several recent high-profile closings of longstanding businesses like Macy’s and Barnes & Noble may have regular customers or skyway users in a scramble for other facilities.

Not only do the projects allow for more public bathrooms, they may also get people to talk about the issue, a major roadblock to possible solutions, Shardlow said.

“It does feel like the logistics are challenging, but the dialogue is more challenging at this point,” he said.

Public urination citations at an all-time low On the west side of downtown, Joan Vorderbruggen sees this issue firsthand. As the Hennepin Theatre Trust’s Cultural District arts coordinator, she brings port-a-potties to the south side of the road for the nonprofit art organization’s weekly 5 to 10 on Hennepin initiative.

Vorderbruggen said she hears in listening sessions with property and business owners that increasing the number of public bathrooms is necessary to combat public urination. Public urination is so common in one alley just off Hennepin Avenue, she said, that the street name for it is the “pee corner.”

Vorderbruggen said Hennepin Avenue is carrying the brunt of the issue thanks to reconstruction projects on Nicollet and Third avenues that push buses, pedestrians and other activity westward.

“There’s a 10-pound bag sitting on Hennepin and it only has capacity for five, and people are feeling that — not only commuters or real-time users, but also the people who are waiting for services. Everybody is kind of having a negative experience on Hennepin right now, for the most part,” she said. “This is a cataclysmic moment where we have infrastructure transformation. We have a serious issue that is at the top of everybody’s [list].”

The concern over a lack of publicly available bathrooms downtown, and related issues like public urination, comes at a time when citations for the crime are plummeting in downtown Minneapolis.

Public urination citations in the 1st Precinct, which includes the Downtown West, Downtown East, North Loop, Elliot Park, Cedar Riverside and part of the University of Minnesota neighborhoods, were down about 80 percent between 2007 and 2016, according to Minneapolis Police Department data obtained

by The Journal. Over the past decade, the precinct accounted for about 60 percent of the city’s public urination citations.

A decade ago, a peak month for citations — typically in the mid or late summer —

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saw about the same number of citations as the entirety of 2015 or 2014, during which Precinct 1 saw 93 and 101 citations, respectively. As of April 27, this year has seen 28 citations in the precinct.

Shardlow said public urination creates problems for the DID and the city’s ability to market itself to visitors. Any additional mess draws on the time and funding for the DID’s ambassador program, whose ambassadors power wash urine and debris off downtown’s sidewalks.

“There are a lot of intuitive issues. It affects how people perceive the cleanliness of downtown, he said.

A place to go Shardlow has looked to several municipalities across the world that are tackling the same issue, including a program in Germany to grant access to private facilities and a West Coast initiative to build more freestanding public bathrooms.

The solution of more public restrooms isn’t as cut and dry as building more facilities, which could cost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and would require a dedicated budget and staff to maintain. Shardlow said the high cost of operating public bathrooms is what leads

building owners and developers to engineer them out in the first place.

Magrino, who also serves on the City Planning Commission, said a possible solution could be better leveraging existing facilities through consistent signage and wayfinding.

For visitors or people in downtown outside of business hours, keeping some bathrooms open could be another option.

“There’s really not a lot of public bathrooms for people to use, especially if they’re visiting. I know I get that question when it’s a ghost town walking around at 6 o’clock on a Friday,” he said.

Patrick Higgins, a building official with the city’s Community Planning & Economic Development Department, said people could use bathrooms at facilities they may not traditionally think to go to when they’re scrambling to find one. If someone banks downtown, they could head there even if access to a bathroom may not be obvious. “[Businesses] have the authority to control that access, but that access is available to you as a customer. They really can’t deny you the right to use the facility,” he said.

Several bathrooms are in the works across downtown, including new facilities at the Nicollet Mall Target where the company is putting in $10 million in renovations. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board also plans to add several bathrooms to area near Mill Ruins Park where it plans to build a new destination park and restauration building.

Shardlow said the DID hopes to do something to “advance the conversation” around the lack of facilities this year.

“It’s a funny little cultural thing. It’s a little bit challenging to even talk about because we live in a polite society and we don’t talk about that aspect of livable communities very often,” he said.

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