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De nuevo Corcoran está ofreciendo un programa de comida a los jóvenes. Niños de los edades 0-18 pueden venir y recibir una merienda a las 3:00 a 3:45 y una comida a las 5:00 a 5:45 diario. El programa empieza lunes el 10 de junio y continua lunes a viernes hasta el 16 de agosto. El programa es gratis a todos los niños. Juntamos en las mesas de picnic cerca el recreo y piscina si el clima nos deja. Continue Reading
Corcoran in once again offering its youth summer meals program. Children ages 0-18 are welcome to come and receive a daily snack at 3:00-3:45pm and a dinner 5:00-5:45pm. This program starts Monday June 10th and runs Mondays- Fridays through August 16th. This program is free to all children. We meet at the picnic tables by the playground and pool if weather allows. Continue Reading
Minneapolis has earned its first ever “5-park bench rating,” on the Trust for Public Lands and ParkScore; beating San Francisco and becoming number one. John Erwin is the President of the Minneapolis Parks and Recreations Board. John talked to Siobhan Keirans on KFAI’s Morning Blend, about the achievement Minneapolis has gained by being considered the healthiest city in the country. Siobhan asked John about the “Trust for Public Land.” [Audio below]
May 23, a ceremonial groundbreaking was held for the Sheridan Veterans Memorial at 1300 Water St. Others speaking in addition to State Representative Diane Loeffler included those pictured above.Steve Bleedorn and Howard Weller, relative newcomers who helped the original Freedom Fighters veterans group, both recalled the monuments that had inspired “Mr. Northeast,” Ed Karbo, “one of the most patriotic and stubborn.” to pursue a local memorial. There is one in Little Falls on the banks of the Mississippi.Weller said they “took that honor flight to Washington, DC to see the World War II memorial. It is awesome. This was Ed’s dream, and that trip supported him.”Jenny Fortman, president of Sheridan Neighborhood Organization for much of the fundraising and organizing time, said she “learned patience and persistence from Ed Karbo. Continue Reading
The public positions on this November fifth’s Minneapolis municipal ballot to which candidates will be seeking election will include the mayor, 13 city council seats, and two seats on the Board of Estimate and Taxation.All nine Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) seats are on the ballot as well.The MSR recently randomly asked a few of our man-in-the-barbershop sources the following question: “What do you know about the Park Board, including the election of its commissioners?” Here’s what we heard.“Who are the commissioners? Where are they from?” asked Cameron Cook, 36. “When it comes to governor or something like that, you know about that. But when it comes to local stuff, you don’t hear that much about it.”Chris Oliver, 34, said he was involved with the Park Board as a kid, “but other than that, I’m not really sure exactly what they do.” He did admit he knew the board’s commissioners were elected officials.“I think they should be trustworthy with the money,” said Oliver.These comments are representative of responses we have received from many citizens when asked about the Park Board and the election of the commissioners who oversee its activities. Yet, as MPRB Communications and Marketing Manager Dawn Sommers points out in this week’s front-page story on the Board’s inner-city work, among other things they oversee 47 recreation centers in the city that provide critical services to thousands of inner-city youth.A majority of these youth are of color; yet of the current nine commissioners, none identify as a person of color. Continue Reading
Over the years, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) has had its fair share of critics. Often the criticism has come from residents concerned about the amount of effort the Board and its members have put into providing resources to the community and maintaining park grounds and facilities.Park attendees playing soccer at the East Phillips Park. (Photos by Jamal Denman)Some such critical sentiments were recently expressed in a story published in the MSR (“Youth sports build more than just muscle,” April 4, 2013), where youth sports coach and community leader Laverne Turner questioned if the MPRB’s actions were matching up with their claims of providing extensive programs and activities for youth.MPRB Communications and Marketing Manager Dawn Sommers agrees with Director of Recreation Centers and Programs Al Bangoura that such concerns were warranted some years ago. “We saw the story…and we appreciate [and] we understand his [Turner’s] criticism of the time,” said Sommers. However, they claim that the MPRB has made significant improvements in recent years. Continue Reading
No Person’s LandOn Wednesday, a crowd of 30 or 40 people gathered in an unlikely space – a median in the void between Seward and Ventura Village. Sheldon Mains, director of Spokes, described the roadway as a “no person’s land” and explained that it’s “scary for pedestrians and bikes–and not that great for cars.”Fortunately, it’s not going to stay that way for long. Thanks to a $435,000 ArtPlace grant, the Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI) is planning turn the space into a park and cultural marketplace called Anpetu Was’te Cultural Arts Market.NACDI hopes that the changes will, “create opportunities for local entrepreneurs, develop needed active community space, improve pedestrian safety, reverse decades of high-crime activity in [the] area, and strengthen Indigenous geographic identity.”Hestness describes the features of the planned cultural marketplace to a tour group. The area will include food trucks, a stage, and vendor space for artists and entrepreneurs.Park, Arts Hub, TheaterCompeting with the noise of cars and a few sirens, Andy Hestness, NACDI community development specialist, lead a tour of the new plaza to the group gathered on Wednesday. He explained that the area is classified by the city as an activity area, and NACDI wants it to live up to it’s designation. Continue Reading
Most of the pools at local parks are open today [June 1] and will be open until Labor Day with a few exceptions:
In a veritable bacchanalia of developments, we have seen three major inter-related activities in Minneapolis’s Downtown East: Continue Reading
The MSR last year published a series of stories on the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) about unfair discipline of Black employees and other discriminatory concerns (“Black employees call Mpls Park Board a ‘toxic’ workplace,” Jan. 5, 2012 and “Park Board leaders, NAACP claim progress,” Sept. 13, 2012). The Minneapolis NAACP last summer received numerous complaints from Black MPRB employees, and its investigation later found a history of discriminatory practices there.