october 2011 uptown neighborhood news
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Opinion ........................................................... 2Crime & Safety ...................................... 4CARAG News .............................................. 8 Film Reviews................................................ 9 ECCO News ............................................... 10 Events Calendar .....................................12
OCTOBER 2011 • Volume 7, Number 10
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< MoaiAdorning this East Calhoun home is a replica of statues carved by the Polynesian ancestors of Easter Island in the South Pacific. (Photo by Bruce Cochran)
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Hungry Yet?Thought So.
We’ve got Chipotle and movie tickets to give away!
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Bikeway Grand OpeningBryant Avenue connects north and south
Uptown Never Tasted So GoodCommunity wine tasting fundraiser on October 26Nine neighborhood organizations sur-rounding Uptown will receive all of the proceeds from a wine-tasting fundraiser to be held Wednesday, Octo-ber 26, from 6 pm to 9 pm at Calhoun Square, Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street.
This 29th annual event will feature sampling of over 400 wines and gourmet appetizers by renowned chef Tim McKee. The sponsors are Hennepin Lake Liquor Store, Il Gatto (a Parasole res-taurant), Calhoun Square and Great Clips.
Wild Kingdom Visits Joyce Preschool By Phyllis Stenerson
What if your teacher told you a special guest was visiting school today and bringing along a few friends – a kotamundi, kinkachoo, honey bear, anaconda snake, California king snake, binturong, lizard, tarantuala, alligator and Eurasian eagle owl? Seems fantastical? It really happened at a preschool in Uptown.
Peter Gros, co-host of the original Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom,
Burglary a “Significant Loss”
H & B Gallery at 2730 Hennepin Avenue, was victim to a burglary on Septem-ber 12 sometime before 6 am. The speed of the burglary suggests the perpetrators were familiar with the property and knew about security cameras. The store was entered and the safe was removed in under 3 minutes. A police report filed with the Minneapolis Police Department stated the theft was a “significant loss.” This type of safe removal fits a pattern of other thefts in the Twin Cities recently. The investiga-tion is ongoing. (Photo by Bruce Cochran)
Binturong, Kotamundi And Kinkachoo! Oh My!
Duplex Fire Takes The Life Of Local Resident
One person was killed and two were injured when a duplex at 3317 Bry-ant Avenue was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning, September 14 that started at about 5:15 am. James (Jay) Beck IV died. He was 28 years old. Beck’s roommate, Alex Franzen, was hospitalized and has been released. A visiting friend had minor injuries.
It’s known that fire started on the second floor porch but the cause has not been determined. The duplex was destroyed and has been demolished. The neighboring house at 3315 Bryant Avenue sustained fire, water and
Minneapolis Fire Crew responded to the early morning blaze on Bryant Avenue in the CARAG neighborhood. (Photo by Tony Acker)
The Bryant Avenue Bikeway is the longest of the new bike routes in Minneapolis, providing a north-south route for bicycle commuters from West 58th Street to downtown Minneapolis (via the bicycle/pedestrian
Sean McDonnell, speaking on behalf of Bike/Walk Twin Cities, explains the strat-egy behind a bike boulevard. Standing at the northern-most point of the new Bryant Bike Boulevard, Sean says that the boulevard is for all bikers. He hopes the safety and comfort provided by this bikeway motivate people who are on the edge of their decision to leave their car at home occasionally. This street is now an example of that strategy. (Photo by Bruce Cochran)
Peter Gros displays a monitor lizard to a Joyce preschooler. He suggests giving kids “success stories” about our planet so they don’t get discouraged about helping it. He says it’s about “creating hope for kids.” (Photo by Bruce Cochran)
(Photo by Michael Sharp)
Don’t Get TowedFall street cleaning begins October 24Fall street sweeping is sched-uled to begin Tuesday, Octo-ber 24. Watch for temporary no parking signs.
Each spring and fall, Public Works crews sweep every mile of the City’s more than 1,100 miles of streets – curb to curb – to help keep the neighborhoods clean and livable and to protect the waterways. Leaves and other debris on the streets can clog storm drains and pollute the lakes and rivers.
Street sweeping usually takes about five weeks to complete.
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The candy ParadeHalloween continues in UptownBy Bruce Cochran
What used to be a “four bag night” of trick or treaters on Halloween at our house every year has gradu-ally dwindled down to nothing. I don’t know what to expect this year, but like last year I’m plan-ning on purchasing MY favorite candy because I’m almost certain I won’t see one Target costume, one face painted Dracula, one ballerina or even one of those really tall kids without a costume that just stand there like statues half hoping you won’t card them.
It got me thinking about the past, present and future of Halloween in our country and Uptown. Are kids done trick or treating? Is there a perception of “stranger danger” by parents? What about that famous razor blade in the apple? Are city demographics changing? And where does this oddball tradition come from?
Halloween as modern Americans know it is a product of various other traditions carried out in the past and combined to form what we now know.
One of the earliest festivals con-nected to the history of Hallow-een is the Samhain (pronounced
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Editorial by Phyllis Stenerson
All issues in society are interwo-ven, each impacting the other in some way. Perhaps most glaring and egregious is the link between money and political power.
Over the last 30 years wealth has shifted upward. Wages for the working class declined while the cost of living rose. The top 10% of earners got over 90% of all income leaving about 10% to be spread across the bottom 90% of work-ers. The average CEO is paid $275 to every $1 earned by regular employees.
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
Warren Buffett
Income disparity, unemploy-ment, poverty, homelessness and hunger in America are at record highs. The middle class is in deep trouble. It may take more than a generation for families to regain financial stability.
“In the general course of human nature, a power over a man’s
subsistence amounts to a power over his will.” Alexander Hamilton
Political campaigns have become outrageously expensive with races for Congressional candidates rou-tinely costing more than million dollars and major campaigns top-ping a billion dollars. Billions of dollars are spent on skilled lobby-ists to influence political decisions. Since a Supreme Court ruling in 2008 called Citizens United, corporations can now spend an unlimited amount of money to influence public policy with very little accountability.
For example, the Tea Party started as a grassroots movement but was quickly taken over by Americans for Prosperity, an organization abundantly funded by billionaire oilmen Charles and David Koch and run by experienced, profes-sional organizers.
The only power sufficient to over-come organized money is orga-nized people. Big money is turning America into a plutocracy or oli-garchy. Democracy is government by the people and for the people – informed, organized, energized regular people.
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth
concentrated in the hands of a few but we can’t have both.”
Louis D. Brandeis
(Information to put this commentary into context can be found at www.ProgressiveValues.org.)
Uptown Neighborhood News wants yOUIs there a reporter, writer or photographer inside you that needs to come out? Is there something you want to tell or show the community? Your talent is needed by the Uptown Neighbor-hood News.
UNN is a community newspaper sponsored by the CARAG and East Calhoun neighborhood associations and published monthly. It’s distributed free door to door in ECCO and CARAG and at businesses and organizations throughout Uptown.
It takes more than 140 characters to tell some stories. For that, there is the newspaper. The UNN tells Uptown’s stories. Com-munity voices and perspectives are needed. E-mail us with your ideas.
Phyllis Stenerson, Editor [email protected]
Money And Politics – A Toxic BrewFrom the September 2011 UNN
Over the next months I’ll be sharing some information about politics and government with the intent of contributing to public civic education, stimulating thinking and promoting dialogue. There was a time when subjects that were not considered polite conversation included politics, money, race, power, sex and religion. That’s what we need to talk about plus much more.
Most analysts report the rich pay proportionately less in taxes than the working class. Taxes on capital gains and dividends have decreased while payroll taxes for regular workers have gone up.
This is not a coincidence or hap-penstance of history. Money is buying power and influence, over-powering the voices of average cit-izens. It’s been a creeping plague for the past 30 years and is causing a crisis in democracy.
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals. We know now that it is bad economics.”
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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A home Of your Own By Phyllis Stenerson
This is the first of a planned series of articles about owning a home in Uptown, with an emphasis on first-time home buyers.
We have lots of renters in Uptown and housing that ranges in price from modest to luxury. We also have lots of expertise in our com-munity to help newcomers to the real estate market find their way around.
The “word on the street” is that there’s never been a better time to
buy, that there are a lot of houses available, that housing prices and interest rates are at an all-time low and that it’s a “buyer’s market.” “Conventional wisdom” about buying a house has been flipped inside out over the past few years and Uptown has unique charac-teristics that make generalizations not always applicable.
“What is right for you?”
This is the most important ques-tion says Judy Shields, a long-time realtor, resident of the East Cal-houn Neighborhood and member of the ECCO Board of Directors. Home buying is a major financial commitment and a life experience loaded with emotions. It’s deeply personal and decisions need to be made that work for each individ-ual.
Judy says there are four big deci-sions home buyers need to make:
1 – Is it the right time to buy? Is this the right time for my lifestyle, my family plans, my career plans
and, last but not least, my financial situation?
2 – What kind of a house am I looking for? Does it fit with my mortgage eligibility?
3 – How do I get the best price and terms for my dream home? There are nuances to every situation so expert advice is essential.
4 – What about the inspections? Be involved so you know what you’re getting into in terms of potential repairs.
We’re seeking questions from potential home buyers who need answers. And input from profes-sionals who have answers for ques-tions first-time home buyers may not even know they need to ask.
Send your questions, answers and suggestions for important topics regarding real estate to the Editor at [email protected].
Judy Shields, Realtor, can be reached at 952.221.1723 or [email protected]
Kowalski’s won approval on September 19 from the Minneapolis Plan-ning Commission to build a liquor store adjacent to its grocery store at 2440 Hennepin Avenue. It will be constructed on the current patio seat-ing area.
The Last RoundKowalski’s ends liquor store raceBy Bruce Cochran
Boehlke Given Lifetime Achievement AwardBain Boehlke, founder and artistic director of the Jungle Theater, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Ivey Awards. This is the seventh annual awards ceremony celebrating local professional theater.
Boehlke started the Jungle Theater at Lyndale and Lake Street in 1991. It’s now one of Minnesota’s premier theaters and an anchor of the Lyn
Lake Neighborhood. His career in the theater includes starting a small touring company, being instru-mental in the early years of the Children’s Theatre Company and playing the roles of founder, pro-ducer, writer, actor and director.
This recently shuttered BP Gas Station at 2700 Hennepin was the site for one of the three competing proposals for a new liquor store in Uptown. Kowalski’s application for an addition to their store was the winner. (Photo by Bruce Cochran)
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crime & safety
“Burglary of dwelling” includes garages, attached or unattached.
chelsea Adams, Crime prevention specialist612.673.2819 or [email protected] precinct: sectors 1&2: (Uptown)
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New cARAG Safety coordinatorPaul Buchel joined CARAG as the new Safety Coordinator. He is a recent University of Minnesota graduate with experience in organizing and community participation. Paul replaces Zack Farley who moved on to pursue another job.
As Safety Coordinator, Paul will organize block clubs and promote ways to prevent crime in the neighborhood. He can be contacted at 612.823.2520 or [email protected]
smoke damage and was evacuated. The residents and their dogs were not injured and were given emergency shelter by the Red Cross.
“I heard someone yell ‘fire’ and opened the shades and saw the second floor deck blazing,” said Tony Acker who lives across the street. “Ran out of the house and was very relieved to see the first fire truck turning from 34th onto Bryant. The only thought was, did the people inside make it out? The intensity of the flames was incredible.
“This was the first really cold morning of the fall. It was 44 degrees that morning but we could feel the heat across the street,” Tony added. “Several of us wondered why the fire department was not getting hoses on the build-ing ASAP. In talk-ing with a fireman that afternoon he stated that first and foremost, it was a life saving mission. Property was sec-ondary. The fire-men know what they are doing. It was touching to see a neighbor (Gen) ensuring that the kids in the neighboring house who evacuated were given blankets to stay warm.”
Tony’s next-door neighbor, Mary Ann Knox, also was awakened by the noise and ran outside.
Jay Beck and Alex Franzen were servers at Burger Jones restaurant in Calhoun Village on West Lake Street. Beck also worked at the Re-Cycle Bike Shop at 2327 Hennepin Avenue. A fundraiser was held at Burger Jones on Saturday, September 24, to help Alex who lost all his belongings in the fire. Donations can be made to Alex’s Fund c/o Kip Clayton, Parosole Restaurant Holdings, 5032 France Avenue South, Edina, MN 55410.
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the street.” TONY ACKER
“We wanted to help but thought, what can we do?” said Mary Ann. “The house was absolutely engulfed in flames. It was horrify-
ing. Then the roof of the house next door started on fire and the trees start-ed catching fire. We all wondered, where are the people? We hoped they had run out the back door.
“Of course, later, when we learned of the death, we were all devas-tated,” Mary Ann continued. Neigh-bors keep wander-
ing over to the site of the house. We are all so affected by having witnessed this terrible thing. I can’t stop thinking about it and about the family and friends who lost a wonderful young man.”
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10th ward News From Council Member Meg Tuthill
Contact Meg at 612.673.2210, [email protected], Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit us at www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/ward10
Minneapolis Firefighters Local 82 charities Present Donation To N.i.P.Minneapolis Firefighters have a long history of volunteering to help at local charities. This tradi-tion continued when the Minneap-olis Firefighters Local 82 charities presented a check to the Neighbor-hood Involvement Program (NIP) at 2431 Hennepin Avenue.
Two years ago, firefighter Captain Mike Dahlberg was on the receiv-ing end of Madison Fire Local 311’s generosity. This sparked the idea for Minneapolis Firefighters Local 82 to establish its own char-ity. The firefighters picked up the idea, filed for non-profit status and the Local 82 charity was born.
The Neighborhood Involvement Program (NIP) was one of the first to receive a check issued by the Firefighters of Minneapolis. 100% of the money that the active and retired firefighters give to L82 Charity will go back into the com-munity or to help other firefight-ers and their families throughout the country, just as the Madison firefighters helped one of Minne-apolis firefighters.
NIP’s Community Clinic offers medical, dental and counseling services including comprehensive services for adolescent and adult survivors of sexual assault and incest, specialized services for the GLBT community and individual therapy. Services are offered on a sliding fee scale based on family size and income. Contact NIP at www.neighborhoodinvolve.org or 612.374.3125.
Thank you to Minneapolis Fire-fighters Local 82 for supporting our community through your gen-erous gift to NIP, one of our great community resources!
Openings on Minneapolis Boards and commissionsApplications are now being accepted for over 80 open positions on 16 boards and commissions that the City Council and Mayor will appoint this fall. The City is seeking applicants with a diver-sity of backgrounds and experi-ences to strengthen the work of the City. Applications will be reviewed beginning September 30, 2011; however the positions are open until filled. For a full list of appointment opportunities and position descriptions, visit www.minneapolismn.gov/boards-and-commissions/open/index.asp.
Fall Street Sweeping beginsFall street sweeping will begin Monday, October 24 and will last four weeks. Watch for temporary no parking signs. Also, please watch for more information in our October newsletter.
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One Minneapolis, One Read: community Shares a Book and conversationThe book The Grace of Silence by Minneapolis native and National Public Radio host Michele Norris was chosen for One Minneapolis, One Read that kicked off on Sep-tember 13. This memoir describes the experience of the Norris fam-ily as the first black family on their block in a south Minneapolis neighborhood. Norris also details her discovery of race-based family secrets.
For more information go to www.minneapolismn.gov/ncr/onemin-neapolisoneread.asp
A major One Read event will be held Monday, October 3 at 7 pm at the Guthrie Theater. Join Michele Norris with MPR News host Kerri Miller for a discussion of The Grace of Silence. A des-sert reception will follow. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for seniors, students and lim-ited income. Purchase tickets at www.GuthrieTheater.org or call 612.377.2224.
Inked Up
Shawn Phelts, owner of Elements Of Creativity Tattoo & Piercing at 38th and Nicollet Ave., has signed a lease for Brass Knuckle Tattoo Studio at 2817 Hen-nepin Ave. With a healthy business schedule at his Nicollet location, Phelts describes his confidence entering an already busy Uptown tattoo market. “We’ve been busy here and we hope to take what we know here and bring it over to Uptown.” He hopes to open by November. (Photo by Bruce Cochran)
Rental Property Owner workshopTues., Oct. 18, 6-8:30 p.m.Minneapolis Police Department 5th Precinct, 3101 Nicollet Avenue S.This free workshop is designed for rental property owners in Minneapolis. (You must own rental property in Minneapolis. This information is Minneapolis-specific and does not replace education in other municipalities.)
The workshops provide pertinent, up-to-date information on how to manage your property, what services the city provides and has speakers including veteran rental property owners in the city.
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That approval ended the last round of a short race in early September between three parties to secure the Planning Commission’s approval for a retail liquor store in the north Uptown area. Due to a proximity law adopted by the city earlier this year only one liquor store can be opened in that area.
At the same meeting an application was heard for a proposal by Abdo Market House LLC. That request was for the site (shown on page 3) of the recently shuttered BP Gas Station, 2700 Hennepin Avenue. That proposal was denied because the property ownership was in transition.
The third proposal was submitted by Daniel and Pierre Kerkinni for the space at 2653 Hennepin Avenue but ruled out because it was not sched-uled to be heard until a later date. This group had previously requested to put a liquor store in the old US Bank plaza space at 2546 Hennepin Avenue.
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AmeliaFlower & Garden ShoppeYour earth friendly neighborhood florist and greenhouse612.208.1205 | 910 W. 36th St.Find us on facebook | ameliaflower.comMon-Sat: 11am-6pm | Sun: 12noon-5pmRediscoveR southwest Native Plants are still available and can be planted thru the fall.Pumpkins available soon!
The Lowry cafeA Restaurant ReviewBy Rich Reeder
Dog Day Afternoon
“Spike” and Karen Compton of Barkley’s Mobile Dog Treats, www.barkleysbis-tro.com, celebrate Dog Day at the Uptown Market on Sept. 11. Located on 29th St. between Lyndale and Dupont Avenues, the Uptown Market is closed for the year and will open every Sunday, next spring. For more information, please visit www.uptownmarket.org. (Photo by Bruce Cochran)
but they’re a bit higher priced, and we were on a budget.
The menu is fun to peruse and we elected to start off with the featured soup of the day, French onion (not typically a soup that I’d order). We were pleasantly sur-prised to find the cup hearty, rich, flavorful, cheesy, chewy and quite scrumptious. The deviled egg that comes in two halves was an excel-lent surprise appetizer. It comes on
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bridge over Lyndale Avenue and the bike path to Loring Park). The route runs parallel to Lyndale Avenue, providing easy access to many popular destinations, including restaurants, schools, parks, yoga centers, martial arts schools, salons-and much more. The Bryant Avenue Bicycle Bikeway intersects the Midtown Greenway (at 29th Street), RiverLake Greenway (at 40th Street), and Minnehaha Parkway bike trail (part of the Grand Rounds).
The route includes new medians at Franklin Avenue to make crossing easier for bicycles and people walking. There also will be easier access for bicycles to the Minnehaha Parkway bicycle trail.
Park Area Going To The DogsA parking lot in Lyndale Farmstead Park, 3900 Bryant Avenue South, has been recommended as the site for a new dog park in South Minne-apolis. This recommendation of the Citizen Advisory Committee now goes to the Planning Committee of the Minneapolis Parks and Recre-ation Board (MPRB). A public hearing will be held with the date being posted on the MPRB web site www.minneapolisparks.org.
garlic, onions and oregano. These three items were certainly enough for two people but, as pasta lovers,
we couldn’t resist the pap-pardelle that was combined with sautéed asparagus and a Catalan goat
cheese. We both rated the mus-sels as “sensational” and the pasta “quite good.”
No wonder the Lowry was packed. The variety of food and drink choices was plentiful and the prices were extremely reasonable. We’re going back for the steak with pier-ogis, maybe the meatloaf, but defi-nitely more beer tastings! Oh, and there’s plenty of parking.
Rich Reeder lives in CARAG.
It’s Wednesday evening at 8 pm. This fairly new cafe at 22nd and Hennepin was overflowing to the gills. Even the bar was packed and the only setback of the evening was that the Twins were on the bar TV, grudgingly plowing to the end of a grim season.
When the server brought the wine/beer menu, my first response was “Wowser Dowser.” While the
phrase may have not had a lotta relevant meaning, she nodded knowingly: “I know.” There was a terrific list of about 30 tap beers (from everywhere. She was eager to have me try a couple ‘til I settled on a darker ale which was perfect for a cool autumn evening. My dining partner ordered the Zin-fandel and she too found the wine list intriguing and lengthy. The cafe has 10 wines from the barrel,
a small, narrow plate, lined with hummus and the eggs were deviled with bacon bits and small pieces of arugula. We split an order of the perfectly cooked mussels which were smothered in a delectable tomato puree and pungent sau-sage sauce, nicely seasoned with
“Wowser Dowser.”RICH REEDER
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Now you have a clinic as welcoming as the neighborhood.
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and easy scheduling, plus walk-in, same-day and after-hours care.
We accept all major insurance plans and, like our neighborhood, we
welcome everyone. Visit us at whittierclinic.org or call 612-545-9000.
Please stop by our beautiful new clinic. We’d love to see you.
Room for everyone.
Welcome to your new home for health care, with services and specialties
that cover Whittier like a hug: family medicine and pediatrics, orthopaedics,
physical therapy, cardiology, prenatal care, whatever your family needs.
We’re at 28th and Nicollet, right in the heart of Eat Street, with convenient hours
Joyce United Methodist Church at 1219 W. 31st St. was struck by lightning on August 17. Fire crews responded to the ensu-ing fire. Fire damage and later rain damage which caused water to leak all of the way to the basement is currently under repair with scaffolding. The work is estimated to be done by late October. (Fire photo by Jeffery Alspaugh, Scaffolding photo by Bruce Cochran)
Food Coops:The people who always thought real food was a good idea.
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A Light from Above
appeared with some of his animal friends on Thursday, September 22 at Joyce Preschool located in the Joyce United Methodist Church building, 1219 West 31st Street.
Gros tells the audience interesting and unique facts about the animals with the audience and weaves education about conservation and wildlife appreciation throughout his presentation. He emphasizes the many positive actions being taken around the world to preserve and restore natural resources.
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild King-dom first appeared on television in 1963 with its original host, Mar-lin Perkins. The show gave many people their first opportunity to see wild animals in their native habi-tat around the world. It received numerous awards. If you’re look-
ing for some nostalgia, past epi-sodes can be watched at youtube.com/wildkingdomtv.
Dayana Reyes-Zanaska is a mem-ber of the Joyce Board of Direc-tors and an employee of Mutual of Omaha based in the Bloomington, MN office. She persuaded decision makers to include the preschool in their tour that also visited sev-eral other locations in Minnesota. Joyce Preschool has been provid-ing early education to children and families for over 40 years and two-way Spanish-English immer-sion programming since 1995. The school has a strong emphasis on kindergarten readiness, par-ent involvement in education and development of early literacy skills. Joyce operates as a 501.c.3 non-profit and provides scholarships to more than half its students each
year. For more information about the Joyce Preschool visit www.joy-cepreschool.org or contact Laura Tompkins at 612.823.2447 or [email protected].
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The CARAG Board meets the third Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m. at Bryant Park Community Center, 31st and Bryant. All CARAG residents are welcome and urged to attend.
community engagement in 140 characters Or LessThe Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG) and Waite Park Community Council will challenge each other in October in a race to 300 Twitter followers.
Twitter has become an increasingly important supplement to the organi-zations’ neighborhood outreach efforts. More than 200 people have sub-scribed to each neighborhood’s Twitter stream, making them two of the most followed accounts among all Minneapolis neighborhood organiza-tions on Twitter.
“The goal is to build awareness for Minneapolis neighborhood organiza-tions, as well as show how social media can help create stronger neigh-borhoods,” said Jeffrey Martin, president of the Waite Park Community Council.
The contest will kick-off on October 1 and continue until one organiza-tion reaches 300 followers. The winner will receive a small prize from the other organization, to be presented at a future neighborhood meet-ing.
CARAG (@CARAGmpls) represents the heart of Uptown in southwest Minneapolis. The neighborhood is bounded by Lake Street and 36th Street to the north and south and Hennepin Avenue and Lyndale Ave-nue to the west and east.
Waite Park (@WaiteParkCC) is a mostly residential neighborhood in the city’s northeast corner, bound on the north by 37th Avenue, on the east by Stinson Boulevard, on the south by Saint Anthony Parkway and on the west by Central Avenue.
Contacts: Jeffrey Martin, Waite Park Community Council, [email protected] or Zack Farley, Calhoun Area Residents Action Group, [email protected].
Be An Artist For A Few hoursMural Project Needs VolunteersSouthwest Senior Center and CARAG need volunteers to help build the community mosaic that will be installed at the Bryant Avenue Market, 3200 Bryant Avenue.
People of all ages are welcome, so come have some fun, learn how to mosaic, and help improve the neighbor-hood. Children under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult. Workshops are being held at the South-west Senior Center, 3612 Bryant Avenue, on Saturday, September 17, 9 am to noon; Tuesday, September 20, 6:30 to 8:30 pm; Friday, September 23, 1 pm to 3 pm and Tuesday, September 27, 1 pm to 3 pm.
Contact Mary Ann Schoenberger at Southwest Senior Center, Volunteers of America of Minnesota, 612.822.3194 or [email protected], for more information and to register for the workshops.
Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG), Annual Neigh-borhood Meeting Minutes, Sep-tember 20, 2011. DRAFT: Subject to approval at the October 2011 CARAG Meeting. Minutes recorded and submitted by John Darlington.
Board Directors in Attendance: Diana Boegemann, Chair, Holly Buchanan, Julie Cohen, John Dar-lington, Zack Farley, Dan Janney,
Jason Lord, Scott Engel, Executive Coordinator. Absent: Carol Bouska, Samantha Strong
A Delicious Meal was served, com-pliments of Pizza Luce.
Meeting Called to Order at 6:35 p.m. by Diana. A total of 65 were pres-ent.
AgendaThe meeting agenda was approved by consensus.
Board of Director Nomina-tions: Julie cohenSteve Green, Melissa Davidson, Nancy Riestenberg were nominated. Sally Hohen was removed from bal-lot.
Nominated at the August meeting:
Carol Bouska, Diana Boegemann, Samantha Strong, Dan Janney, Jason Lord, and Erick Petersen. Motion: to accept the slate of nominations. Carried. (no “nays” or abstentions).
Thank you to out-going Board Members: Holly Buchannan, Julie Cohen, Zack Farley, and John Dar-lington.
Minneapolis Park Board Superintendent Jayne Miller Miller was introduced by Ward 10 Councilmember Meg Tuthill. Superintendent Miller presented information on the following: Riv-erfront Development: (“River First” Project); New playground at Lake Harriet; 2012 MPRB proposed bud-get to be presented October 19: no program/service cuts – cuts confined
to operations only; MPRB will strive for greater efficiency for 2013 to avoid future program/service cuts.
Superintendent Miller took ques-tions from the audience covering a wide variety of topics from native Park plantings, invasive species plan, street sweeping, storm gutter runoff, the Conservation Fund to the new dog park.
cARAG year in Review: Julie and Diana presented colorful/informative video• Chilly Chili Fest: over 200 attend-
ed, and over $800. raised for Joyce Uptown Food Shelf.
• New neighborhood website thanks to volunteer Kyle Reicks
• Earth Day Clean-Up day
• 1st Annual Dodge Ball Tourna-ment
• CARAG Super Sale
• 14th Annual Garden Tour
• CARAG sponsored bike deco-rating station during the June 12 Open Streets Minneapolis
• Aldrich Arts Collaborative (mural project completed at 36th and Bryant)
• CARAG Safety Task Force mem-bers attended all the National Night Out events in CARAG on August 2nd
• Kids of CARAG Car Wash spe-cial thanks to Julie Cohen, Zack Farley
• CARAG sponsored parking dur-ing Uptown Art Fair; raised $780. for neighborhood; special thanks to Nancy and Keith Sjoquist
• The 2nd annual CARAG Kick-ball Game took place in August. Kids and adults played the game prior to the CARAG Sponsored Movie in the Park-“Tron:Legacy”
• Upcoming: MOSAIC mural at Bryant Avenue Market-a VOA Southwest Senior Center and CARAG project.
• CARAG volunteer opportunities abound: consult website for list-ing
• CARAG serves as fiscal agent for Uptown Neighborhood News
Hennepin Lake Community Wine Tasting raised $3692 for CARAG
Treasurer’s Report: Scott engel presented 2012 budget for approval Motion to approve fiscal year 2012 budgets for CARAG operations, NRP Administrative, and the Uptown Neighborhood News. . Carried: (No “nays” or abstentions).
community input/Announcements: Diana• Leslie Foreman (assistant to Meg
Tuthill) celebrated “Bike Boule-vard” and announced September 24 event. (Consult City Council website for information).
• Hennepin Lake Community Wine Tasting tickets are available for $25 in advance, or $30. at the door. Cindy Christian endorsed H.L.C.W.T. and upcoming “Green Event.”
• Hennepin County Commissioner Gail Dorffman gave update on County Library/Park/Greenway project.
• CARAG Architecture Tour date and logistics to be determined.
• Paul Buchel, CARAG’s new Safety Coordinator introduced his plan. He envisions an approach that would involve stroll patrols, engaging residents in reporting concerns-from problem prop-erties to suspicious activity and organizing residents to improve communication and awareness about issues of crime and safety in CARAG.
• Thank you to Pizza Luce` for providing the most delicious lasa-gne, salads and great bread for our meeting
• Thank you to Bull Run for pro-viding Coffee.
• Thank you to all the park employ-ees who helped set up our meeting space.
Next Meeting of CARAG Neigh-borhood is scheduled for Tuesday, October 18, at Bryant Square Park.
Meeting was adjourned by Diana at
The mural image includes snowflake designs and was created by Sharra Frank.
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CARAG | 3612 Bryant Avenue S | Minneapolis, MN 55409www.carag.org | [email protected] | 612.823.2520
Join the CARAG E-update at www.carag.org to receive emails about CARAG activities and events.
On the agenda…• New CARAG Board of Directors
• City Council Member Meg Tuthill
• Community Updates
Tuesday, October 18, 7:00pmBryant Square Park (3101 Bryant Ave S)
Welcome 2011/2012 Carag Board Of DirectorsDiana Boegeman, Carol Bouska, Melissa Davidson,Steve Green, Daniel Jenney, Jason Lorde, Erick Petersen,Nancy Riestenberg, Samantha Strong
Thank you to Pizza Luce and Bull Run Coffee for their generous donations to the CARAG Neighborhood Annual Meeting.
Hennepin Lake Community Wine TastingWednesday, October 266:00-9:00pm @ Calhoun Square (3001 Hennepin Avenue)Tickets: $25 in advance, $30 at the door
Go to www.carag.org to purchase tickets online or call CARAGat 612.823.2520.
The Wine Tasting is back again as a fall event! Sample from over 400varieties of wine while mingling with your neighbors. ALL proceeds oftickets purchased from CARAG benefit activities of the organization.
Event Sponsors: Hennepin Lake Liquors, Calhoun Square, Great Clips, Il Gato, and area neighborhood organizations including CARAG.
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Tickets being sold in advance by neighborhood volunteers are $25 each with all proceeds going to the organization that sells the ticket. Tickets at the door are $30 each with proceeds shared by the four founding neighbor-hood groups.
Neighborhoods par-ticipating are Calhoun Area Residents Action Council (CARAG), East Calhoun Com-munity Organization (ECCO), Lyndale, Kenwood, Cedar Isles Dean, Whittier, East Isles, Lowry Hill and Lowry Hill East. This is the biggest fundrais-er of the year for most organizations.
For the second year, this will be a Zero Waste Initiative. As much of the waste from the event as pos-sible will be composted includ-ing corn-based compostable wine cups. Appetizers will be served on napkins and guests will be able to clean their palettes with water
from a central dispenser rather then individual water bottles. All wine bottles will be recycled.
Pat Fleetham ([email protected]) is the lead organizer and
volunteer. Cindy Christian from CARAG ([email protected], 612.824.4096) is head-ing up the recycling project. Many volunteers from all neighborhoods are also involved.
To purchase tickets through the CARAG neighborhood contact the office at 612.823.2520, go to www.carag.org or call Cindy Christian at 612.824.4096. For the ECCO neighborhood contact Judy Shields (jshields@cbburnet.
com or 952.221.1723) or Heather Wulfsberg ([email protected] or 612.812.6971). Other neighbor-hood contacts are East Isles - Amy Sanborn [email protected] or 612.868.8664; Lowry Hill
East, [email protected]; Cedar Isles Dean, [email protected]; Whittier, [email protected]; Lyndale, [email protected]; Ken-wood, [email protected]; Lowry Hill, [email protected].
More than $13,500 was raised in the 2010 event and given directly to the neighborhood organi-zations. In the 28 years of this event more than $303,500.00 has been raised for programs to
benefit the greater Uptown resi-dential community.
• “No Parking signs” – City crews will post “No Parking” signs at least 24 hours before sweep-ing any streets. Parking will be banned from 7 am to 4:30 pm on the day a street is swept. Vehicles not removed will be towed to the Minneapolis Impound Lot: www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/impound-lot
• Use the Street Sweeping Sched-ule Lookup to find out which week your street is scheduled to be swept. The application is available for the duration of the sweep. The schedule is updated frequently during the sweep to reflect the actual progress of street sweeping: www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/streetsweep/streetsweeplo-okup.asp
• Phone calls to residents – During the spring and fall sweeps, in addi-tion to the “No Parking” signs that will be posted the day before sweepers come through, the City will make about 3,500 automated phone calls each evening to let residents know their street will be swept the next day. Listed, resi-dential telephone numbers will be called.
The Standard Tow Charge is $138 and the Daily Storage Rateis $18 per day.
Phil Colich, owner of Hennepin Lake Liquor, with his wife Sue on the left at the 2010 Wine Tasting. Pat Sharp is on the right. (Photo by
Michael Sharp) 7:59 p.m.
Thank you to all who participated in the success and enjoyment of the evening.
“Brighton Rock” (NR) (3) An engaging, dark, star-stud-ded (Helen Mirren, John Hurt and Andy Serkis), 2010 remake of the 1947 film noir thriller, based on Graham Greene’s 1939 novel, in which a revenge-driven, coldblooded, brooding, 17-year-old thug (Sam Riley) seduces an innocent, childlike British wait-ress (Andrea Riseborough) in an English seaside resort town in 1964 to prevent her from reveal-ing his involvement in the murder of another gangster (Sean Harris) while plotting his rise in the mob-ster ranks.
“Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” (R) (3) [Violence and terror.] — An eerie, suspenseful, well-paced, 2010 remake of the 1973 thriller in which evil gnomes, who feast on the bones and teeth of children, terrorize a young girl (Bailee Mad-ison) when she moves into a creepy Rhode Island mansion that her divorced father (Guy Pearce) and his interior decorator girlfriend (Katie Holmes) are renovating.
“Drive” (R) (3.5) [Strong brutal bloody violence, language, and some nudity.] — After a steely, soft-spoken, low-
key, lonely, for-hire getaway stunt driver (Ryan Gosling) foolishly decides to help an attractive neigh-bor (Carey Mulligan) and her young son (Kaden Leos) by being involved in a pawnshop heist in Los Angeles with her ex-con hus-band (Oscar Isaac) and a mysteri-ous woman (Christina Hendricks) to help him pay off money he owes to the wrong people in this ten-sion-filled, well-acted, well-paced, violent film, he ends up endanger-ing not only his own life, but that of the mother and his mechanic friend (Bryan Cranston) when two gangsters (Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman) come after the $1 mil-lion that belongs to the East Coast mob.
“Love crime” (NR) (3) [Subtitled] — When her ungrate-ful, ambitious, taunting, ruthless, sociopathic boss (Kristen Scott
Thomas) takes credit for her stel-lar work at a agribusiness firm in Paris and toys with her affec-tions and that of her duplicitous lover (Patrick Mille) who refuses to stand up for himself in this gripping, intriguing, well-acted, unpredictable 2010 thriller, her smart, highly organized protégé (Ludivine Sagnier), who is sup-ported by a coworker (Guillaume Marquet), plots her revenge.
“Main Street” (PG) (2) [Mild thematic elements, brief language and smoking.] [Opens October 7] — While a sleazy Texas businessman (Colin Firth) woos both a financially strapped elderly woman (Ellen Burstyn), who con-stantly seeks the advice of her niece (Patricia Clarkson), to store toxic hazardous waste at her warehouse and the skeptical mayor (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) to build a plant in his small North Carolina town in this lackluster, quirky, uneven-paced film, a policeman (Orlando Bloom), who lives with his mother (Margo Martindale) and is study-ing to be a lawyer, tries to woo her former girlfriend (Amber Tamb-lyn) who is dating a married attor-ney (Andrew McCarty).
“Tucker & Dale vs. evil” (R) (3.5) [Bloody horror violence, language, and brief nudity.] — When two dimwitted, kindhearted, beer-guzzling hillbillies (Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk) in West Virgin-ia head to an isolated, rundown, fixer-upper, vacation cabin in the Appalachian Mountains and end up saving a beautiful, drowning college student (Katrina Bowden) in this wacky, hilarious, entertain-ing, imaginative, violent, 88-min-ute horror spoof of such films as “Cabin Fever,” “Friday the 13th,” and “The Texas Chainsaw Mas-sacre,” bloody bodies begin to pile up after one grisly accident leads to another and the missing girl’s college buddies (Jesse Moss,
Brandon Jay McClaren, Christie Laing, Chelan Simmons, Tra-vis Nelson, Alexander Arsenault, Adam Beauchesne, and Joseph Sutherland) and the sheriff (Philip Granger) mistake the two innocent bumpkins as kidnapping psycho killers while the two best friends believe that the irrational students are fulfilling some kind of strange suicide pact.
“The way” (PG-13) (3) [Some thematic elements, drug use, and smoking.] — Gorgeous landscapes, striking photography, and historical landmarks dot this inspirational, touching, 2010 film, partially based on Jack Hilt’s “Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route in Spain,” in which a grieving oph-thalmologist (Martin Sheen) heads to St. Jean Pied de Port, France, after the tragic accidental death of his 40-year-old son (Emilio Este-vez) in the Pyrenees and decides to continue on the 485-mile jour-ney that his son started to become a pilgrim by walking the Camino de Santiago (aka The Way of Saint James) where he meets a boisterous Dutchman (Yorick van Wagenin-gen) trying to lose weight, a trau-matized and cigarette-addicted divorced Canadian (Deborah Kara Unger) dealing with abuse issues, a creatively stagnant Irish novelist (James Nesbitt) trying to get back his writing mojo, and a lively New York priest coping with cancer.
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thank youThe East Calhoun Community Organization Says
to These Labor Day Celebration Sponsors
1st National Bank of the LakesAccent ArtsAlt Bike ShopAmigo Service Center Amore VictoriaAutopiaBen and Jerry’s Calhoun StoreBobby BeadBorankovich Message TherapyBrave New WorkshopBremer BankBruegger’s BagelsCaffery’s Deli & SubsCal SurfChiang Mai ThaiChipotleComedy SportsCowboy Slim’sDavanni’sDrink UptownDunn Bros Coffeeel mesonFamous Dave’sFusion
Granite City Food & BreweryHalf Price BooksHerkimerHomemade Pizza Company*Infi nitea TeahouseJerry’s HardwareJungle TheaterKowalski’s MarketLandmark TheatresLee’s ShoeLucia’sMagers & QuinnMy Sister’s ClosetNoodles*Old Chicago*Once Upon A ChildPenn CyclePizza LucéPunch PizzaRainbow FoodsRinataRoat OshaRudolph’sSa Bel Salonspa Salon Levante
Sebastian Joe’sSonny’s Ice Cream*Specs OpticalSt. Mary’s Greek Orthodox ChurchSt. Paul Saints BaseballStarbucks*State Farm - UptownStella’s Fish CaféTattersThe Chair SalonThe EateryThe LowryThe Tea GardenThe UPS StoreTin FishTop ShelfToppers PizzaTrader JoesUncommon GroundsUptown AssociationWilliams PubWuollet’s Bakery*
* These sponsors contributed food for this event.
10 • Uptown neighborhood news www.carag.org OCTOBER 2011
East Calhoun Community OrganizationECCO reportECCO meets the first Thursday of each month, 7 p.m. at St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church, 34th & Irving. All ECCO residents are welcome and urged to attend.
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One-sort Recycling pilot program underway in East Calhoun! Compost with a Green Cart! Sign up by calling
Minneapolis Solid Waste & Recycling at 612-673-2917. Save space and money: downsize from a large trash cart
to a small one. Request the change by calling Minneapolis Solid Waste & Recycling.
watch your waste
It’s all free & fun!For more information, visit www.eastcalhoun.org or contact us at [email protected].
ECCO
www.eastcalhoun.orgSign up for our monthly e-newsletter to learn more about our events. Send a request to [email protected] or call Monica Smith at 612-821-0131.
Join us for the
East Calhoun NeighborhoodAnnual MeetingThursday, October 6, 2011St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church, 3450 Irving Ave. S.
Pizza & Social at 6:00 pm Meeting 6:45-8:30 pm
Free pizza dinner, bring your specialty for the dessert potluck.Free professionally staffed childcare.
Agenda items✱ Find out what’s happening
in the neighborhood about: trees, energy, ecology, safety, NRP and more!Your ideas, interests, and feedback invited!
✱ Elect new ECCO board membersGet involved, run for an open seat
✱ Socialize with your elected offi cials
New board members needed!Four positions on the ECCO Board are up for election this year. A term is two years long. Nominations are made and voted upon at the annual meeting. Responsibilities are: Age 18 or older, ECCO resident, attendance at monthly board meetings on the fi rst Thursday of each month, 7:00-9:00 pm, and participation in at least one commit-tee. Standing committees are: Environ-ment, Social Events, Safety, and Zoning. Time commitments for each vary.Could this be you?
29th Annual Hennepin Lake Community
WineTasting Fundraiser
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.Location: Calhoun Square, 3001 Hennepin Ave S
Tickets: $25 in advance/$30 at the door
For advanced ticket sales to support the East Calhoun neighborhood, contactHeather Wulfsberg at 612-812-6971, [email protected] or Judy Shields at 952-221-1723, [email protected].
100% of proceeds go directly to neighborhood associations.
SPONSORS: Calhoun Square, il Gatto (Parasole), Great Clips and Hennepin Lake Liquor
Join the Green Team to make this a Zero Waste Event! Volunteers are needed. Contact Cindy Christian at [email protected] to sign up.
ECCO Meeting Minutes for Sep-tember 1, 2011. (East Calhoun Neighborhood Monthly Meeting) Minutes recorded and submitted by Monica Smith.
AttendanceBoard members: Nancy Ward (President), Sarah Sponheim (Vice President), Glen Christianson (Trea-surer), Brad Durham, Blake Harper, Jim Smith, Linda Todd and Heath-er Wulfsberg. Monica Smith (NRP), Meg Tuthill (City Council Member, Ward 10) and other residents were also in attendance.
ECCO Board President Nancy Ward called the meeting to order at 7:09 p.m.
Open ForumSarah Wisneski and Lucinda Redd, residents of the Greenhouse Con-dos, 3540 Hennepin attended the meeting to discuss partnering with the condo association to beautify the green space on the corner of 36th and Hennepin. Sarah Sponheim and Jim Smith volunteered to meet with them to explore options.
Nancy Ward has begun inviting guest speakers. The agenda will include information about form-ing a tree committee. Café Crema is
donating ice cream. Davanni’s will be contacted for pizza donation. Heather Wulfsberg to ask Mesa
Meg Tuthill (city council Member, ward 10)• The City Council is looking for
funding to prevent laying off 10 firefighters.
• The Mayor will present the 2012 budget on September 12
• The City has received applica-tions for three new liquor stores on Hennepin (Kowalski’s, replac-ing the BP station at 2700 Hen-nepin and 2652 Hennepin). Only one will be allowed (restrictions requiring 2,000 ft door-to-door between liquor stores). Let CM Tuthill know if you have a prefer-ence.
• CM Tuthill thanked Sarah Spon-heim for her work to bring the one-sort recycling pilot to East Calhoun.
• A concern was raised about the speed of traffic on the 3300 block of Holmes and the number of young children on the block. CM Tuthill said a traffic wagon could be requested.
cOMMiTTee RePORTSSarah Sponheim, Green Team
One-sort recycling has come to East Calhoun for a one-year pilot pro-gram. The City conducted a waste sort of 100 ECCO households on the last day of the multi-sort recycling program to establish a baseline. Giv-ing feedback to the City is encour-aged. Door knocking by Green Team members will begin soon. The City is piloting a dual-sort pilot in Seward (recycling is up 18%).
The Green Team will be march-ing with green and blue carts in the
Labor Day parade. They will pro-vide organics composting at the din-ner and have an information table.
Two upcoming Waste Watchers events: Waste Loss Fair, on Septem-ber 24, 9 to 10 am at St. Mary’s and Tour de Compost, September 27 at 7 pm.
Sarah is involved with making the Wine Tasting Fundraiser a green event.
Social Committee
Wine Tasting Fundraiser: Wednes-day, October 26, 6 to 9 pm at Cal-houn Square. Judy Shields and Heather Wulfsberg are ECCO’s co-chairs for the event. 100% of the proceeds from tickets sold by ECCO in advance come back to the neigh-borhood.
The ECCO Board unanimously approved a motion to have Heather Wulfsberg interface with the three other neighborhoods bordering Lake and Hennepin to discuss the feasibility of a percentage of the proceeds from the Wine Tasting be allocated to police buy-back for the Uptown area.
Labor Day: All the plans are in place for the Labor Day celebration. Board members to help fill in where additional volunteer help is needed. Nancy Ward will bring nametags for board members to wear at the event.
Monthly socials: The next social will be candlelight social near the trolley path in November.
Annual meeting: The annual meet-ing will be Thursday, October 6.
“loo-koo-MAH-thes”David pronounces Loukoumades slowly, as he describes the precise cooking time of the pastry made of deep fried dough soaked in sugar syrup, honey and cinna-mon, at St. Mary’s Orthodox Church Annual Greek Festival on September 11. (Photo by Bruce Cochran)
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East Calhoun residents celebrated Labor Day with their annual parade and picnic. The parade was led by the Southwest High School marching band followed by a few hundred ECCO residents including children on decorated bikes, scooters and strollers. Pictured above are Alexander in his favorite outfit and Penelope accompanied by their mom at left. (Photo by Bruce Cochran)
Aye, Aye, Cap’n
Pizza to donate pizza as well.
Zoning Committee
The home at 3332 Irving Avenue will be demolished and a new 2,500 sq ft single-family home will be built in its place.
CB2 construction is underway at 31st and Hennepin.
CM Tuthill to send information to Nancy Ward regarding a proposal to eliminate the CUP process being considered by City Council.
NRP Report
ECCO’s executive committee will meet to discuss a possible pay raise for Monica Smith. A proposal will be presented at the November ECCO Board meeting.
ECCO is currently in first place for the CES challenge grant. The con-test runs through the end of Sep-tember. An Awards Ceremony will be held on October 25. Board and community members are invited to attend. More information to come soon.
The Board discussed ECCO’s NRP housing program. Grant and loan money is still available for home improvement. The loan program has not been well used. A concern was raised that the income cap ($75,600 for a family of four) may be too restrictive for many residents to qualify for the loan. The board discussed raising or removing the
income cap for the loan program. A motion to remove the income cap and make the loan available to all did not pass. The issue will be tabled until the November meeting.
Decision making between meetingsNancy Ward proposed a change to the ECCO bylaws to accommodate decision-making between meetings.
Current ECCO Bylaw: Article 8, Section 4 Action by Consent. Any action that may be taken at a meet-ing of the directors may be taken without a meeting if authorized in writing and signed by 2/3 of the directors.
Proposed bylaw change to Article 8, Section 4: Any action required or permitted to be taken at a Board meeting may be taken by written action, or by electronic mail, signed by the number of Directors that would be required to take the same action at a meeting of the Board of Directors at which all Directors were present. See binding policies, which govern these decision-mak-ing processes.
Proposed new policy: Action by Consent Policies Consent actions are reserved for conditions which arise without notice, where decisions or input that relate to the good of the neighborhood are required between regular board meetings.
Any Executive Committee member can call for a consent action. The
innovative Tree canopy MapDid you know nearly 32 percent of Minneapolis is covered by tree can-opy? Find out more from a new mapping study of the Minneapolis tree canopy now available online. The map can help neighbor-hoods strategically plan and target resources for the greatest return on our tree canopy, including reduced storm water runoff and reduced energy consumption. Staff plans to update maps following events such as the May tornado in north Minneapolis. For more informa-tion and to see the map, visit www.minneapolismn.gov/trees.
east calhoun Kicks Off Single Sort Recycling Pilot ProgramThe Single Sort Recycling Pilot Program was launched with a press event on August 15 in the Willard Hay neighborhood. East Calhoun and Willard Hay are the two Minneapolis neighborhoods chosen for this year long pilot program. All East Calhoun resi-dents should have received their new single sort cart. If you live in East Calhoun and have questions about single sort recycling project please contact Sarah Sponheim at [email protected] or 612.824.2613.
Blaisdell and 1st Avenue Bike Lane celebration The celebration for the Blaisdell and 1st Ave bike lane comple-tion will be October 9 from noon to 3 pm. The event will begin at Martin Luther King Park (40th Street and Nicollet Avenue), then proceed to family friendly celebra-tion stations along the north/south route. The 5th precinct will be a station focusing on bike safety. More stations will be announced at the park. For more information visit http://bikewalkmove.org/1st-blaisdell-opening
energy efficiency Loans For Multi unit BuildingsLow interest loans to provide financ-ing for energy efficiency upgrades to large (structures of four stories or more containing more than 10 dwelling units) multi-family rental properties are available from the City of Minneapolis’ Department of Community Planning and Econom-ic Development (CPED). CPED established the city-wide program to remove financial barriers to allow property owners to make energy efficiency improvements. Loans will be structured in such a way that the energy savings would fully or substantially offset the debt ser-vice on the loan. For more informa-tion check out www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cped/multifamily_energy_loan_program.asp or contact Jessica Green at 612.673.5232.
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eccO from 10 date and time which ends decision-making will be specified when con-sent action is posted. Three business days are the typical period for deci-sion-making, but can be extended by decision of the Executive Com-mittee. Reasonable effort by those posting the consent action item shall also be made to notify Directors by telephone, at the time of giving writ-ten notice.
Quorum requirements for electronic or written reply are the same as at regular board meetings. Lack of response will not be considered to be either a yea or nay vote. If a quorum is not met, the action fails.
An electronic signature (name) satis-fies the requirement of a signature so long as the electronic commu-nication containing the electronic signature sets forth sufficient infor-mation from which the board can reasonably conclude that the com-munication was actually sent by the purported sender.
The board unanimously approved a motion to change the bylaws and accept the new policy with the fol-lowing addition: Identify the offi-cer positions by adding “(President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Sec-retary)” after the words “Executive Committee” in paragraph 2 of the new policy.
Meeting adjourned at 9:20 p.m.
Next meeting: Annual Meeting on Thursday, October 6 at St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church.
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sow-am or sow-in) which literally translated means summer’s end. It was a Celtic agricultural festi-val. This was originally consid-ered a pagan festival but when the Christian Church welcomed new members they created All Hallow Even or the eve of All Saints’ Day on November 1. This allowed new members to continue their pre-Christian traditions. The full title continued to be abbreviated until its current title Halloween.
The holiday traditions were pri-marily brought to this country by the Irish and to a smaller extent by the Scots. Throughout its history it has gone through many changes and characteristics: hooliganism, youthful rowdiness, bonfire night, romanticism, spirit worship and political expression, but always a culturally subversive holiday. This is mostly because there has never bean a real sponsor for Halloween. It is a protean force that has adapt-ed and changed over time.
And yet one thing the Halloween has almost always accomplished is its direct and indirect community building power. Through com-munity parties, but more so for trick or treating, Halloween is the National Night Out of October.
It’s had its share of growing pains too. Arson, tipping over outhouses, breaking fences, soaping windows, removing homeowner’s front stairs and even roving packs of young-sters essentially holding shopkeep-ers and homeowners ransom for a treat. The vandalism and tricks wore on the communities until they decided to sponsor civic festi-vals to keep the kids occupied. One of the earliest adopters of these community Halloween parties was Anoka, Minnesota in 1925.
So although some communities across the country still experience vandalism and pranks, Uptown for the most part is still about the trick or treating, commercial and private parties, as well as park
sponsored events, among other things.
Uptown Beat Officer Robert Illetschko admits that most of the nighttime rowdiness of Halloween in Uptown is more about people exaggerating their party attitude and just doing more of the same stuff that happens on any other rowdy Saturday night in Uptown.
At Calhoun Square this year there will be a HallowEve Festival on October 29 from 1pm to 5 pm with trick or treating, a costume con-test, craft Stations, pumpkin carv-ing contest, photo station and the Teddy Bear Band.
For those interested in organized activity on Halloween, Bryant Square Park is holding its annual party with music, a bonfire with marshmallows, dancing and other activities for little kids.
The Wedge neighborhood is holding Halloween Hauntings: a haunted evening of scary stories told in one of the Wedge’s famous old houses. See www.thewedge.org for current information.
But if you’re still holding out for that door to door sugar rush you can still find hot spots in Uptown where the trick or treat tradition is still strong. From my informal poll of local parents I discovered that some kids still trick or treat locally in the neighborhood, some kids still show up in cars from other neighborhoods, but no one is influenced by the perception of “stranger danger.” Some par-ents just like to take advantage of organized events because it can be easier.
And what about the famous razor in the apple? Well from almost every source I read as well as a sociological study that was done, there have only been two docu-mented incidents due to danger-ous treats on Halloween. And the “razor blade” was essentially a rumor that still survives today.
But with the transient residents
and all of the apartment buildings, it can be tricky to locate partici-pating neighborhoods. Sometimes streets lose all of their young kids at once and the fun moves over a block.
For now some of those popular blocks for candy collection are still right here in Uptown. Peter Krembs and Rob Jeddloh have had a steady flow of regular neigh-borhood kids over the last decade that usually start with a party at a local home and then continue down their block at Irving and 28th Street in East Isles.
According to Wedge resident Quinton Skinner, the middle of the neighborhood near Bryant and Colfax, is where he has found it “to be most in the spirit of things.”
Over in the East Calhoun Neigh-borhood, Anja Curiskis says that she has seen a mix of kids from outside as well as inside the neigh-borhood and they go through “a couple bags of candy each year” near 35th and Humbolt.
In CARAG Diana Boegemann joins her entire block in decorating their boulevard with witches in the trees about a week before Hallow-een. She says that on Aldrich Ave-nue they get a healthy trove of kids on their way to the Annual Bryant Square Park Halloween Party.
So fire up the pumpkin, ignore the dentist and leave the porch light on because I might just dress up as that tall kid that looks just a little bit guilty because he’s probably way too old to trick or treat, and you’ll know it because he had a little trouble parallel parking.
Bruce Cochran is Assistant Editor, Art Director and in charge of Pro-duction for the Uptown Neighbor-hood News and lives in CARAG.
Sources for this article include The World Book Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia Britannica but most-ly Halloween: From Page Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers.
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community events calendarincluded the MBTI as a key instrument in helping students to better understand themselves and their relationships. Social hour 6:30pm. $4, members. $6, non-mem-bers. $10, families/couples.
12–WEdNESdAyOnCE UpOn A CRimE BOOk ClUBOnce Upon A Crime Bookstore - 6:30pm604 West 26th St. • 612.870.3785www.onceuponacrimebooks.com October’s book is “Bone Chamber” by Robin Burcell and facilitated by Michael Allan Mallory.
16–SuNdAyFARmAgEddOnBryant Lake Bowl - 3pm810 W. Lake St. • 612.825.8949www.bryantlakebowl.comThe new documentary Farmageddon sheds light on the plight of small family-scale farms. The farmers tell their stories in their own words, inspiring us to support them and preserve our right to access their foods, whether through direct farmer-consumer sales, farmers’ markets, co-ops or food buying clubs. As the film’s director Kristin Canty states, the crux of the issue is “simply about freedom of food choice, because without it, we simply aren’t free.” “Kristin Canty’s Farmageddon is well-titled. It’s an eye-popping wake-up call revealing how the USDA and FDA have increasingly waged war on America’s small farmers even when they can prove they are con-tributing healthful products to our food supply.”– Los Angeles Times. Tix: $5.
18–TuESdAyThE EThnOphARmOCOlOgy OF EnERgy dRinksBRYANT LAKE BOWL - 7pm810 W. Lake St. • 612.825.8949www.bellmuseum.orgProfessor George Weiblen, curator of plants at the Bell Museum, explores the diversity of plant-derived drugs that stim-ulate people around the world. Through-out history and across the globe, we have sought stimulation in a countless variety of drinks. The special ingredients of all “energy” drinks are molecules derived from plants that affect our senses. What are they and where did they come from? Who discovered their effects? How much is too much? And why do we prefer to share our plant-derived drugs in social groups? This caffeinated conversation aims to expose the ethnobotany behind our favorite beverages. Professor Weiblen has studied plants on five continents over the past twenty-five years. His collabora-tions with native peoples on the tropical island of New Guinea to document tradi-tional uses of plants for food, recreation, and medicine shed light on cultural prac-tices here at home.
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TuESdAySsOCRATEs CAFEDunn Brothers - 7:30pm3348 Hennepin Ave. • 612.822.3292The Socrates Cafe is an open meeting. The evening is spent discussing a short list of questions of philosophy that range all over the map from self identity, capi-tal punishment, perception and anything else in between. Bring your questions and prepare to engage your mind.
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ThRu OCTOBER 22ThE JOinT pROJECT: yOUTh ART ExhiBiTINTERMEDIA ARTS2822 Lyndale Ave. S • 612.871.4444www.intermediaarts.orgSchool, work, family, friends...in the life of a teen there are bound to be some loose ends. The Youth Leadership Coun-cil at Intermedia Arts is pleased to pres-ent a multi-disciplinary exhibit of artwork made by Minnesota teens. This exhibit is intended to offer many different youth perspectives about the world and creative expression, and shows how there is no single definition for youth culture. So for-get what you think you know about teens and come check out this show of youth art. $3 suggested donation.
ThRu dECEmBERgRiEF sUppORTWalker Methodist Health Center 3737 Bryant Ave. • 612.827.5931www.walkermeth.orgThe South Minneapolis Coalition for Grief Support is going to have a fall series that runs from Thursday, September 29 through Thursday, December 8. Each ses-sion starts at 6:15pm with registration and refreshments, followed by a speaker at 6:30pm and small group discussions until 8pm. Look for the schedule of speakers at www.trustinc.org.
2–SuNdAymEdTROniC Twin CiTiEs mARAThOnTwin Cities in Motion - 7:55am Twin Cities • 651.289.7700www.tcmevents.org30th running of the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon: Minneapolis to St. Paul includ-ing Lake of the Isles and Lake Calhoun. The Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon is called “The Most Beautiful Urban Marathon in America®” for 26.2 good reasons. With mile after mile of parkways, lakes, rivers and tree-lined boulevards, the scenery can’t be beat. Add 300,000 screaming fans, 10 Cheer Zones, over a dozen course enter-tainment acts, and you’ve got an experi-ence that you’ll never forget.
3–mONdAyminnEApOlis ThEOsOphiCAl sOCiETyFirst Unitarian Society - 7pm 900 Mt. Curve Ave. • 651.414.0545Joe Sherin, M.A. and specialist in counsel-ing, will introduce the history, develop-ment and uses of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in education, work and rela-tionships in an open public meeting of the Theosophical Society. Getting famil-iar with the MB types and your specific type, Sherin claims, can help you under-stand how the world works and how you function within it. Many people report that the insights they gain through this understanding helps them to value their uniqueness and that of others. Sherin is a licensed psychologist and has worked for 32 years in the Minnesota Community College System, primarily as a counselor, and at Century College. He routinely has
19–WEdNESdAylEgO wEdO ChAllEngEWalker Library - 2-4pm2880 Hennepin Ave. • 952.847.8400www.hclib.orgUsing LEGO WeDo sets, the computer pro-gram Scratch (a free computer program-ming language), and simple materials, team up with other problem-solvers and compete to find the best solution to the challenge they give you. Registration is required, begins Sept. 21. Register online or by phone. Grades 4-6.
20–ThuRSdAyACTing wORkshOps: dUkE iT OUTWalker Library - 6:30-8pm2880 Hennepin Ave. • 952.847.8400www.hclib.orgLearn the secrets of safe stage combat. Fight and fall without hurting anyone-just like the actors on stage. It looks real, but it’s just pretend. No experience necessary.
22–SATuRdAyBlACkFish Cd RElEAsE COnCERTBryant Lake Bowl - 7pm810 W. Lake St. • 612.825.8949www.bryantlakebowl.com“So smart and harrowing and frightening and beautiful that it’s a revelation.” - Space City Rock. Blackfish celebrate the release of their 8-CD collection of improvised concerts recorded while on tour across the USA. They will create their expansive sound and conjure their intricate duets from a myriad of instruments, effects and looping pedals.
29–SATuRdAyTEAm ORThO mOnsTER dAsh 5k & 5k-9Lake Harriet Bandshell - 11am4135 W. Lake Harriet Pkwy.www.monsterdash.orgThe course around Lake Harriet includes a performance long-sleeved running shirt, a stained-glass finisher’s medal, trick or treating on the course and costume con-test. Run with your dog in the 5K-9.
30–SuNdAyREspOnding TO ViOlEnCE in OUR COmmUniTyJoyce United Methodist Church - Noon1219 W. 31st St. • 822.5288www.joycechurch.orgPotluck & a Presentation. They’re taking this quarter’s theme, “Christian Responses to Violence in Our World” to the local level, and will be talking about issues of violence, assault, and abuse in our own neighborhoods. Judi Nelson from The Sojourner Project will present.