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‘Where the biggies leave off...’ Hill& Lake Press Published for the East Isles, Lowry Hill, Kenwood Isles, & CIDNA Neighborhoods VOLUME 30 NUMBER 3 MARCH 18, 2006 Precinct Caucuses...the Beginning...the 2006 Election By Jean Deatrick Precinct caucuses may be imperfect ways to gather voters together to try reach a consensus about issues and candidates, but the DFL caucus that I attended at the Unitarian Society was well attended and attendees were in agreement on most issues. I urge residents to attend their caucus the next time they roll around. The precinct caucus is an important early cog in the democratic process. It is where at the grass roots level, we discuss issues and elect delegates to represent us at conventions. We also elect local party leaders. Caucuses are congenial gatherings of neigh- bors and friends with an occasional politician stopping by. Although in my experience, sometimes a caucus meeting results in lengthy contentious discussions, such were absent at the caucus I attended. The DFLers at the Unitarian Society passed 13 res- olutions ranging from support for universal health care to a resolution urging Congress to investigate executive power abuse. Straw polls indicated our choices for can- DFL Precinct Caucus at the Unitarian Society Photo by Dorothy Childers More on precinct caucuses page 8 ******************** SAFETY ALERT! THE STREETS AROUND KEN- WOOD SCHOOL ARE NARROW AND BECOME QUITE CONGEST- ED AT DROP-OFF & PICK-UP TIMES. PLEASE USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN DRIVING PAST KENWOOD SCHOOL AT THESE TIMES: 7:15 - 7:30 A.M. & 1:40 TO 1:50 P.M.! Parents and residents have noted a number of speeding careless drivers who are heedless of stop signs and safe- GOP caucus attendees gathered comfortably at St. Paul’s Photo by Dorothy Childers ty rules. Episcopal Church on Logan. ******************** THE LEGACY CONTINUES Theodore J. Wirth (TED) retired and moved to childhood summers living with his grandfather in the Inside Minneapolis to help the Minneapolis Parks Legacy Theodore Wirth House at 3954 Bryant Avenue South. Society grow and to implement two important projects: When he attended Saint Thomas College Ted enjoyed reprinting his grandfather's important book, "The jogging daily through the Mississippi River Gorge. Letters Page 2, History of the Minneapolis Park System, 1883-1944", During his long and illustrious career, Ted prepared School Board Page 4 and opening his Grandfather's historic home in Lyndale the concept studies and preliminary plans for the Cedar Calendar Page 6 Farmstead Park as an interpretive learning center. Lake Trails and designed and supervised the construc- The Neighborhoods: Pages10-13 Ted Wirth is a Landscape Architect with over 55 tion of Boom Island Park for the Minneapolis Park and EIRA, LHRI, KIAA, CIDNA years of experience on over 500 projects. Specializing Recreation Board. Jefferson School Page 14 in park and recreation development around the world, In 2000, Ted co-founded the Minneapolis Parks Kenwood School Page 16 Ted’s career was foreshadowed by the work of his late Legacy Society with Joan Berthiaume, a Minneapolitan. Classified Ads Page 14 father, National Park Service Director Conrad L. Wirth, The Society is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization Ask Diane Page 19 and Grandfather, Minneapolis Park Superintendent with a mission “to preserve, protect and interpret the Sand upon the Water Page 20 Theodore Wirth. rich history of the Minneapolis Park System.” The Ted is no stranger to Minneapolis. Although he Society gives park history lectures and slide presenta- grew up in Washington D.C., he has always considered Minneapolis his real home. He spent several of his Legacy continued on page 3 2HILL AND LAKE PRESS MARCH 18, 2006 L E T T E R S Hill & Lake Press Delivery Hill & Lake Press, 2101 West Franklin, Hill & Lake Press is delivered door to door in the Minneapolis, MN 55405, 612-374-3099 To the Editor: area east of France Avenue, south of Dunwoody Volume 30 Number 3 Issue March 18, 2006. I was surprised recently to find out that a number of Boulevard, north of Lake Street, and west of Next issue is April 15, 2006. my most intelligent friends, after reading my letter in the Hennepin Avenue. If you do not receive your paper, Reservation deadline is April 3, 2006. January 2006 issue of Hill & Lake Press, did not under- please call 612-377-7353 or send an email to stand what I was talking about when I pointed out that [email protected]. The following area businesses Managing Editor Jean Deatrick: 612-377-7353 Americans buying prescription medications were paying stock Hill & Lake Press for your convenience. Please 1821 Dupont Avenue South, Minneapolis, tell them that you appreciate their help in promoting to support Europeans and Canadians who were paying MN55403; [email protected] less for American pharmaceuticals than we Americans our community newspaper. Please patronize our are paying. And this is additionally aggravating when advertisers and tell them where you saw their ad. Burch Pharmacy Isles Bun & Coffee Business Manager: Jane Johnson you consider that many of these Europeans and [email protected] Canadians are more affluent than many American Calhoun Beach Club Isles Market & Deli Calhoun Vision Kenwood Rec Center Photographer: Dorothy Childers patients. [email protected] How come, you say? Simply because these govern- Dunn Brothers The Woman’s Club Editorial Assistant & Store Deliveries ments have imposed price controls and “insist” that our Einstein’s Bagels Quality Coaches [email protected] drug companies sell to them at a discounted price. The Framestyles Sebastian Joe’s Heidi Deatrick only good thing about it is that we too can have our pre- Green Mill Tuthill’s Residential Deliveries: Lloyd Smith scriptions filled by Canadian and European pharmacies Walker Library Hennepin Lake Liquor [email protected] at lower prices than from American pharmacies, Walker Art Center Lowry Hill Liquor because the foreign pharmacies obtain the medications Hill & Lake Press is a non profit newspaper from our drug manufacturers at a lower price than do The Hill & Lake Press welcomes your letters to the and is supported by its advertisers and our own pharmacies. editor. Please send them via email if possible and pro- neighborhood associations: East Isles To repeat the example I previously gave, my wife vide your name, address, and telephone or email Residents Association (EIRA), Kenwood and I take four medications which cost us $1,711.85 address. Letters received and identified as residents of Isles Area Association (KIAA), Cedar Isles yearly from an American retail pharmacy. On the low- the Hill and Lake Press distribution area will be pub- Dean Neighborhood Association (CIDNA), est cost Schedule D Plan I could find, the drugs were lished. Street addresses will not be published, nor will and Lowry Hill Residents Inc. (LHRI). indeed much cheaper, but adding in the monthly (1) anonymous letters. Letters from residents from with- premiums, (2) copays, and (3) annual deductibles raises out the area are published as space permits. Brief let- the annual cost to $1,589.19. I have ordered our four ters are welcomed and we reserve the right to edit let- Hill and Lake Press welcomes and encour- medications from a Canadian pharmacy for what will ters for length and content. ages financial contributions. Please send amount to $1,276.94 per year. them to Hill & Lake Press c/o Jane Johnson, Of course, buying drugs from outside this country Business Manager, 2120 Fremont Avenue is very unpopular with big pharma and U. S. retail drug- of years. And this criticism from the organization that South, Minneapolis, MN 55405. gists: they would rather have the money themselves. gave us Vioxx, the ineffective Italian tetracycline, the Why the FDA objects, I’m not entirely sure. I suppose Thalidomide that caused phocomelia in babies, the All advertising queries should be directed to it is a combination of a challenge to their bureaucratic eighty-eighty rule for generic drug substitutions, and a Jean Deatrick. Hill & Lake Press welcomes power and support for the local corporations. In fact, number of other unfortunate lapses. He---anybody can stories, poetry, articles, photos, and ideas. prior FDA chief Thomas Thompson in a recent edito- make a mistake! Yes---but then don’t pretend to be Please email to Jean Deatrick at rial (Investors Business Daily) quotes AARP to tell you infallible. Unfortunately, the one policy he does not [email protected] that “for many Americans, Medicare drug plans that object to is the policy that forces Americans to subsi- cover all of a beneficiary’s drugs can cost less than buy- dize other countries by means of their drug purchases. ing the same drugs across the border.” This is an egre- Sherman B. Child, MD, Kenwood gious example of “spin” because this may be true for many Americans, but he carefully avoids telling you that it is certainly not true for the far greater majority of STATE OF THE PAPER….OR. HOW WE NAILED TOM COOK Americans. This can be easily verified by just adding up the figures supplied by the Section D plans for the par- By Jane Johnson ticular medications you are interested in. Possibly concerned that you might do just that, Recently I was out in Southern California with time ‘Irenas’ in Redondo Beach, voilà, we found it! A cute Thompson then goes into a series of charges which on my hands, so I decided to take the opportunity to do house on a corner (Tom and JoAnne like corners it tend to question the desirability of Canadian drugs. Of some H&LP business by looking up Jean Deatrick who appears,) and there in the window IT ‘loomed’! Joanne course he give us no hard factual data to substantiate happened to be out there at the same time.