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A charter school popular for its academics but criticized for taking away neighborhood gym and field access may put park users through a couple more years of disruption. But, park planners say, the end result could be brand new accommodations much better than ever imagined 42 years ago when the shared facility was built.
A lot of life is spent getting ready to get ready, or planning to plan. When you’re dealing in other people’s money and public opinion, that’s how it has to go. Here’s what’s happening on two fronts:
Coffee shop, white linen sit-down restaurant, jazz night club—what’s your dream, where would you like to go out in the neighborhood? What can the North Minneapolis dining market support?
Neighbors know them as the home of volleyball games in summer, the Little Kitchen Food Shelf and some raised bed gardens on the parking lot, several churches having services, and the Fraser Academy school.
When the theater group Mixed Precipitation chooses locations for their Picnic Operettas, they try to introduce audiences to parts of the urban ecosystem.
Thirty-six year old Blong Yang points out that there’s a Hennepin County Commissioner who’s been in office 34 years, and that Mark Stenglein, the District 2 Commissioner whose resignation opened up the seat Yang is running for, was on the county board for 16 years. “Why not me? I want to see change in District 2.” Born in Thailand, a refugee who came here at age 3 and grew up on AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children), Yang said, “I know how tough it is. I’m tired of sitting on the sidelines.”State Senator Linda Higgins received more than twice as many votes than Yang in the Aug. 14 primary. Continue Reading
Papa’s Restaurant and Deli at 42nd and Thomas closed permanently Sept. 17.
One could almost hear Gilda Radner as Emily Litella: “Never mind.” But the analogy stops there.
Neighbors need not only to approve, but welcome and help design a Habitat for Humanity home, to convince the City of Minneapolis to convey the property it would sit on.
