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October 2016 Vol. 32 No. 8 www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com 21,000 Circulation • Habitat for Humanity ReStore opens in Longfellow

Story and photos by MARGIE O’LOUGHLIN Habitat for Humanity opened their second ReStore in the Twin Cities on Sept. 15 with three days of events and celebration. Located at 2700 Minnehaha Ave., the store has easy access from the adjacent Greenway Bike Trail or, for those who drive, parking is available in the off-street lot in front of the store. The concept behind Re- Store is simple: to be a non-profit home improvement outlet selling new and used building materials, home fur- nishings, and lighting at deep discounts. All revenue from Re- Store goes to support Habitat’s Habitat for Humanity president and work of building, repairing, CEO Susan Haigh said, “More than and rehabbing homes for local 2,600 families have come knocking families. on our doors since Apr. 1. The need The 23,000 square foot for affordable housing in the Twin space for the Longfellow Re- Cities is very real.” The fi rst shoppers gathered outside the new Habitat ReStore on Sept. 15. Store is being leased from its neighbor, Zimmer Biomet. Ac- cording to ReStore operations Lots of contributions gift of $100,000; the Margaret A. contributed $35 million to our Susan Haigh was on hand to de- Cargill Foundation, who made projects across the country since liver welcoming remarks to the manager Pete O’Keefe, the bud- Contributors included Ryan Con- a gift of $200,000; and Target 1979. They donated 1,800 gal- first shoppers. “When you buy get for the project was about struction, who provided con- Properties, who donated a full- lons of paint for the opening of something at our ReStore,” she $400,000. “That might sound struction supervision, access to scale property analysis before this ReStore alone. It’s all part of said, “every dollar that doesn’t like a lot of money,” O’Keefe their list of sub-contractors, and construction began. their commitment to the com- get used paying salaries or store said, “but we could never have countless hours of labor and Last, but far from least, was munity.” overhead goes to help families done this build-out without materials; RSP Architects, who Valspar Paints. According to John in need of housing. Our fi rst Re- the significant in-kind contri- did all of the design work for Hagerman, Habitat communi- Store, located in New Brighton, butions and donations we re- the project pro bono; the Butler It’s a game changer ceived.” cations specialist, “Valspar has Family Foundation, who made a Habitat president and CEO Continued on page 3 Hiawatha Community School celebrates 100th anniversary Story and photos by JAN WILLMS A school in Minneapolis mark- ing its 100th anniversary is no small thing and Hiawatha Community School at 4201 42nd Ave. S. is cel- ebrating big-time. On Oct. 15 at 11am, the school will have a pro- gram, carnival and block party to honor the occasion. “The students are very busy learning songs through the de- cades,” said Deb Regnier, Hiawatha principal. “They’ve been learning songs from the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. There will be dancing as well.” Hiawatha Community School Princi- The school currently is home to 290 students in K-2. The school population is “The fifth graders have been pal Deb Regnier. 60 percent white, 20 percent African American, 20 percent Latino and a few working in pairs or small groups, Native American and Asian. writing and reciting about what school was like in the 1920s.” trucks on hand. nesota Elementary School Princi- Hiawatha School in 1916 is scarce. Regnier said that a lot of for- “We’ll have a bouncy house pals’ Association (MESPA). This She found that it had been built in mer staff, parents and students have and carnival games, just a fun day prestigious honor was awarded to a residential area surrounded by been invited. There will be a car- to celebrate,” she added. There will Hiawatha and Howe Community family dwellings. There were 16 nival and block party, with food be 100-year t-shirts and buttons, Schools for their commitment to classrooms. An addition was built with a design created by one of the 21st-century teaching and learn- in 1923. parents. ing. She said the Oct. 15 celebra- “The room we now use as an A mosaic at the school reflects Regnier said that Hiawatha tion hopes to also acknowledge this ESL classroom was used as a library Hiawatha Community School’s and Howe Community Schools award. and had an outside door,” Regnier commitment to students and the have been validated as Minnesota Regnier said that informa- community. Schools of Excellence by the Min- tion about the early formation of Continued on page 3 Neighbors gather for food/fun at 7th annual Nokomis block party Photos by JILL BOOGREN The parking lots at Oxendale’s Market and McDonald’s Liquor and Wine and the 3400 block of 51st St. were bustling on Sept. 11 as neighbors stopped by to visit local vendors, grab a snack, check out vintage cars, and try their hand at the dunk tank. The annual event is hosted by Nokomis East Neighborhood Assn., Oxendale’s Market, McDonald’s Liquor and Wine, and Faith Lutheran Church. BUY LOCAL

Jeanean Gilmer (behind table) of the Food Building in northeast Minneapolis, and Cooper Laikind (right), a miller at Baker’s Field Flour & Bread, serve up samples from Red Table Meats, The Lone Grazer Creamery, and Baker’s Field.

A lot of people wait to have a go at the dunk tank while Travis Riopel shakes off the water after being dunked one careful aim gets close to the mark. by Josie Murphy (not pictured). Riopel, a tenth grader on the Roosevelt High School wrestling team, got in the tank for fun.

Wendy Brown, of Wendy’s Doghouse grooming service, From left: Chris Ulberg, Carolyn Struve, and Denise Pel- introduces people to some of her best customers: Bear Bear linen scoop up root beer fl oats being given away by Trinity (front left), a Pomeranian, and Clara, an Afghan Hound. Lutheran Church of Minnehaha Falls.

From left: Bryan, Ava, Khloe and Jamie Albertson check out a ‘65 Ford Mustang at the classic car show held in the Mc- Donald’s Liquors parking lot.

Page 2 October 2016 • Messenger • www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com Habitat for Humanity ReStore “Habitat for Humanity’s mission is Continued from page 1 to eliminate poverty housing in the was so successful in 2015 that Twin Cities and to make safe, decent, they were able to build homes for six families with their pro- affordable shelter for all people a ceeds.” Haigh explained, “We be- matter of conscience. We are committed lieve that home ownership is a game changer. When we’ve sur- to building the quality of life, health, veyed our homeowners about and economic prosperity to the region by what’s changed since they’ve gotten into stable housing, al- producing, preserving and advocating most all of them say that it’s been great for their kids, but for affordable home ownership--because it’s also been great for them. More than 90% of the parents homes and families are the foundation say they’ve either gone back to school or are planning to. One Celebrity Do-It-Yourself TV host Amy Matthews (second from left) revved of successful communities.” way or another, nearly all are up her chop saw for the opening “board-cutting” ceremony. Matthews is a li- actively working on improving censed general contractor who has been involved with Habitat since she was their lives.” 14 years old. She offered DIY workshops throughout the three-day grand ReStore welcomes dona- opening of ReStore and encouraged people to learn new skills. tions of doors, light fixtures, appliances, furniture, hardware, open on Saturday from 10am- second hand and re-use stores tiles, tools, plumbing, fl ooring, 4pm, with donations accepted than any other commercial cabinets and more. Hours of until 3pm. ReStore is closed on corridor in the state. With the operation are Tuesday-Friday, Sunday. All donations are tax addition of the Habitat for Hu- 10am-6pm, with donations ac- deductible. manity ReStore and the Better cepted until 5pm. ReStore is Mayor Betsy Hodges and Futures Warehouse at 2620 the Minneapolis City Council Minnehaha Ave., that mile just approved a resolution in 2014 got a few blocks longer. declaring Minnehaha Ave. from For more information Lake St. to Minnehaha Falls as about volunteering, donat- the “Minnehaha Mile.” This ing or shopping at ReStore, go section of the street contains to www.tchabitat.org or call Valspar is the national paint sponsor for Habitat for Humanity and has do- more antique, vintage, retro, 612.588.3820. nated more than $35 million in cash and in-kind contributions.

Hiawatha/Howe has a GEMS/ Hiawatha GISE program to promote engi- Community School neering, math, and science for girls and science and engineering for Messenger Continued from page 1 boys. There is a Legos club for kin- dergarten students. 125 First Ave. NW, PO Box 168 said. “People could come in that “There are a lot of family door and check out books, so it was nights,” Regnier said. “Right now, Minneapolis MN 55369 used as a community resource at the PTO is holding a garage sale to 651-645-7045 the time.” raise funds for students to attend a Functioning as a commu- camp.” Publishers: releases for publication can be sent via e-mail nity resource has been part of Hi- at [email protected]. Be sure to On Fridays, students earn Calvin deRuyter, Tim Nelson awatha’s long tradition. The school Hiawatha Community School today. pencils and are awarded for being send copy in the body of the e-mail, and please currently is home to 290 students Managing Editor: mark whether the copy is a letter, a news release “Bucket Fillers.” Regnier said these for publication, or perhaps just your thoughts on in K-2. Included are some High Five Calvin deRuyter, [email protected] are acts that students perform to the last issue. Don’t forget to write! students--youngsters who had not munity,” said Regnier. fi ll someone else’s bucket. “Maybe Advertising: yet reached the age of 5 by Septem- She said Hiawatha offers a fab- Jesse noticed someone was sad and The Longfellow Nokomis Messenger is ber. ulous playground, built with funds Denis Woulfe (651-917-4183); a monthly community publication in the helped him or her, or Oliver shared [email protected] In 2013, Hiawatha was filled raised by the Parent Teacher Orga- a toy with friends. We also recog- Longfellow and Nokomis areas of Minneapolis, and more space was needed. Howe Production: owned and operated by deRuyter-Nelson nization (PTO). “We have a brand nize a staff person every week. We Publications, Inc. All correspondence should be School, which was closed in 2005, new kitchen, with food cooked on- Tim Nelson do a lot of positive reinforcement.” sent to the Messenger, 125 First Ave. NW, PO was reopened to accommodate site,” she added. Regnier said they are hoping Contributing Writers: Box 168, Minneapolis, MN 55369. To contact grades 3-5 from Hiawatha. Howe, Regnier said there is a lot of the editor, call Calvin at 651-917-4182. To lots of former staff, students and Tesha M. Christensen, Jan Willms, Jill Boogren, 3733 43rd Ave. S., has 190 students technology in use at Hiawatha, parents, as well as those currently reach the advertising department, call Denis at enrolled. Matthew Davis, Margie O’Loughlin, Loren Green 651-917-4183. with every grade level having an connected to the school, will be Regnier, who said this is her iPad cart and laptop cart to share, able to attend the 100-year celebra- Now, communicate with the Longfellow All rights reserved. The contents of the 33rd year in Minneapolis schools, and a computer lab. There is a tion. Nokomis Messenger electronically! Messenger cannot be reproduced without started off at Anderson and was a sound announcement system in “They can take a walk down Now it’s easier than ever to keep in touch with express written permission of the publisher. teacher there for 22 years. She was every class. memory lane,” Regnier noted. the Messenger. Letters to the editor and news Copyright ©2016. assistant principal at Nelly Stone Johnson and has been principal at Hiawatha for seven years. “This is a strong community,” she said. She noted how much peo- Letters to the Editor ple like Hiawatha as a neighbor- Epworth Harvest Festival hood school. “Many parents have Serving the community and world! said they remain in the community Bicyclists are speeding on trails so their kids can go to school here, Thursday, October 13th 4:30 - 6:30 pm even if the houses here are small. To the Editor, the pathways can be found in That says a lot.” This letter is in response to the Minnesota Drivers Manual Bouncy House She said the school population the Letter to the Editor in the (pages 38-41). Pumpkins, Ghourds and Squash is 60 percent white, 20 percent Af- last Longfellow Nokomis Messen- The speed of bicycles ger about pedestrians and the cy- (10mph) is painted on the Come pick out your pumpkin rican American, 20 percent Latino and a few Native American and clists. All the answers to or about pavement. This applies to Lake for the holiday in the front yard Asian. “It’s a nice mix, like a com- pedestrians and bicycle traffi c on Nokomis and the East and West S Food for the Family T River Rd. and parkway paths. I have biked in all these areas and Turkey faced sandwiches, mashed potatoes, gravy and corn more in Minneapolis. If you are $9 for adults/ $5 for kids biking over 10mph, please use *Vegetarian and gluten free options available the street. I would like to see this in- Bazaar and Bake Sale formation made available at all All proceeds of bake sale go to Feed My Starving Children the bike shops and at the Open Pre-order, delivery and carry-out options available Streets for 2017. I talked to the 612-722-0232 or 612-232-5998 Park Police and they told me they don’t have time to enforce For more details check out Epworth at these rules. our website: mplsepworthumcmpls.org or Facebook page by Epworth UMC, Mpls Sincerely yours, John Roban www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com • Messenger • October 2016 Page 3 Are you interested in beefing up hood Association office. The your home energy knowledge new NENA office offers a great before the winter? Here’s your potential for us to display art- chance! NENA (Nokomis East Neighborhood Association) work by local artists and have NENA is hosting a Home it seen by the community. Dis- Energy 101 workshop on Wed., 4313 E. 54th St. plays will rotate on a regular Oct. 19, 6-7:30pm at the Mor- basis to provide as much op- ris Park Recreation Center, 5531 Night Out With NENA – Is Your Home Ready for Winter? portunity as possible. All 2-di- 39th Ave. S. mensional hanging work and NENA has partnered with 3-dimensional work within the Center for Energy and Envi- our criteria, guidelines and ex- ronment to bring this workshop hibit size limitations will be where you’ll learn energy-saving considered. tips to make your home more For more details and comfortable this winter. guidelines please contact At the workshop, you Dave Colling at dave.colling@ will hear about Home Energy nokomiseast.org. Squad Enhanced--a home en- ergy visit program provided by Sign up for NENA News CenterPoint Energy and Xcel Your Guide to News, Events Energy in partnership with the and Resources! Get your neigh- City of Minneapolis. During borhood news delivered to the visit, a team of two en- your inbox every other Wednes- ergy consultants will come to day. Sign up today at www. your home to install energy nokomiseast.org. Once you sign saving materials and evaluate up, you’ll receive updates on your home’s energy use with a news and happenings for your blower door test and an infra- neighborhood. red scan. They then provide you with a customized Energy Fit- NENA Home Improvement ness Plan that includes a quote for any recommended insula- Loan Program tion and air sealing improve- Whether by choice or neces- ments. This unique opportu- sity, start planning your next nity is the result of the nation home project now with the leading Clean Energy Partner- help of a home improvement ship formed to help Minneapo- loan from NENA. Owners of lis reach its clean energy goals. one to four unit residences Thanks to this partnership, can apply for up to $15,000 these customized energy visits to make improvements to are available to new homeown- their properties. Owner oc- ers at a reduced rate of $70. cupants and investors may Don’t wait until winter to apply. Interest rates are ei- get started making your home NENA Board members working at the Minneapolis Monarch Festival - Festival de la Monarca. ther 2% or 3%, depend on more comfortable. Join your income, and there no income neighbors at the Home Energy restrictions. 101 workshop and learn how hood; commercial development pro- on preferred land use as it re- NENA also has available you can benefit from improved • to coordinate and seek solu- grams;. lates to future development. a limited amount of funds for comfort and lower energy bills. tions to issues related to hous- • to provide input on zoning Goals of the Green Initia- our emergency repair loan pro- To RSVP for the workshop, ing and commercial building changes or building applica- tives Committee: gram. Only owner-occupied contact Dave at 612-724-5652 development; tions; and • to improve awareness con- or dave.colling@nokomiseast. • to advocate for housing and • to advise city and developers cerning issues that may impact households are eligible, and org. To schedule a Home Energy the environmental quality of income restrictions do apply. Squad Enhanced visit call 612- NENA’s neighborhoods; There is a maximum loan 335-5874. Upcoming events in the Nokomis East neighborhood • to advocate for programs that amount of $7,500 at 0% in- For more information on address improvement of the terest. The loan is due in full the program visit www.mncee. environment; and upon sale of the property or org/hes-mpls. • Sat., Oct. 1, 1-4pm, First Saturday Book Collection @ Nokomis • to advise city and developers title transfer. Library, 5100 S. 34th Ave. on environment issues. For more information or Thank you • Tues., Oct. 4, 5-7pm, Group gardening - all welcome; Nokomis Please call 612-724-5652 to request an application for Naturescape on Lake Nokomis at 50th St. and Nokomis Pkwy. Thanks to everyone that came or email nena@nokomiseast. the NENA loan program, call • Wed., Oct. 5, 6:30-8:30pm, NENA Housing, Commercial and out to support the 2016 Mon- org if you would like more in- our partner, the Greater Met- Streetscape Committee; NENA office, 4313 E. 54th St. arch Festival. Monarchs, art, formation. ropolitan Housing Corpora- and education came together • Tues., Oct. 11, 5-7pm, Group gardening - all welcome; Nokomis tion’s Housing Resource Cen- at Lake Nokomis to create a Naturescape on Lake Nokomis at 50th St. and Nokomis Pkwy. Artist Call ter 612-722-7141, or visit www. wonderful festival. Our part- • Tues., Oct. 11, 6:30-7:30pm, NEBA Board Meeting; McDonald’s NENA invites artists to partic- gmhchousing.org. Loan appli- ners--Minneapolis Park and Liquor Store, 5010 S. 34th Ave. ipate in exhibit opportunities cations are processed on a first- Recreation Board, U of M Mon- • Thur., Oct. 13, 7-8pm, NENA Executive Committee Meeting; at the Nokomis East Neighbor- come, first served basis. arch Lab, US Forestry Depart- Nokomis East Neighborhood Association, 3000 E. 50th St. ment and the Mexican Consul- Tues., Oct. 18, 5-7pm, Group gardening - all are welcome; ate--all did incredible work to Nokomis Naturescape on Lake Nokomis at 50th St. and Nokomis make this event once again the Pkwy. biggest and best festival of its • Wed., Oct. 19, 6-7:30pm, Night Out With NENA - Home Energy kind in the United States. 101 Workshop; Morris Park Recreation Center, 5531 39th Ave. S. A special thank you to ev- • Thur., Oct. 20, 1-4pm, Group gardening - all welcome; Nokomis eryone who worked so hard Naturescape on Lake Nokomis at 50th St. and Nokomis Pkwy. on the Monarch Magic! work- • Thur., Oct. 20, 6:30-7:30pm, Inside the Criminal Mind; shops, as they were a great ad- Nokomis Library, 5100 S. 34th Ave. dition to this year’s event. • Sat. Oct. 22, 1-5pm, Fresh Hop Fest; Town Hall Lanes, 5019 S. And thanks to everyone 34th Ave. who came out to share the day, • Tues., Oct. 25, 5-7pm, Group gardening - all welcome; Nokomis including our exhibitors and Naturescape on Lake Nokomis at 50th St. and Nokomis Pkwy. food trucks. • Thur., Oct. 27, 7-9pm, NENA Board of Directors Meeting; NENA Join a NENA committee Office - 4313 E. 54th St. NENA is currently looking for residents to join our new Green Initiatives Committee and our long-standing Housing, Com- mercial & Streetscape Commit- tee. Joining means you attend committee meetings, design proj- ects and implement strategies to make our community an even better place to live! Goals of the NENA Hous- ing, Commercial & Streetscape Committee: • to maintain and improve the housing stock in the neighbor-

Page 4 October 2016 • Messenger • www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com South Minneapolis has its own bicycle bread man Laune Bread features sourdough and whole grains delivered via bicycle By TESHA M. CHRISTENSEN ing in someone else’s kitchen, ing only. When he eats other’s Christopher MacLeod is and she’s paying it forward, Mac­ breads, his stomach tells him known as The Bread Man to local Leod explained. right away whether it is a true residents. He doesn’t want a storefront. sourdough or not. On Tuesdays and Wednes- “I prefer to spend my time wor- “The bread I make is the days, the Bancroft resident criss- rying about bread and sourcing bread I want to eat,” said Mac­ crosses South Minneapolis deliv- better products,” said MacLeod. Leod. ering freshly baked bread on his He explained that instead He lets the flavors in the bicycle. of putting money towards a crust and interior meld during His trailer promises beards, building, he wants to support a longer rising period and then breads, and good vibes, the En- small farms and mills, in part to bakes them at a high tempera- glish translation of his name reduce the total food miles in- ture. “I think it adds more sweet- “Laune.” volved. Although Minnesota is a ness and nuttiness,” MacLeod re- Laune Breads are naturally large grower of wheat, it is often marked. leavened, crafted with ten digits shipped to Colorado to be milled For much of history, people and friendly ingredients, and lo- and then shipped back to Minne- lived off of whole grain bread, cally sourced. sota to be used or exported over- getting the nutrients they needed. When he began the business seas. In fact, 50% of the wheat Yet, the peasants always wanted last October, MacLeod was the grown in Minnesota is exported to have white bread, like the no- only local bakery using organic to places such as Korea, Japan, bility. Today, he pointed out, the grains. He’s one of two deliver- and Europe, MacLeod pointed shift is away from Wonderbread ing bread by bicycle in the Twin out. and back toward whole grains. Cities. He also wants to provide a “I view this business as a connection between his sub- ‘Bread time’ in Germany project for myself,” said Mac­ scribers and farmers. His weekly MacLeod’s love for bread can Leod. newsletters include information be traced to the college year he After living on the West about bread and grains. spent studying in Munich, Ger- Coast, MacLeod wanted to ex- many. The bread he ate there was perience someplace new, so he ‘Bread I make is a far cry from the sliced white moved to Minnesota about two the bread I want to eat’ bread he’d eaten in America. years ago. He envisioned an MacLeod compared his sub- Rather than eat a typical meal abundance of wheat in the Mid- with a plate of food following an west, MacLeod recalled, and scription service to that of a CSA (community supported agricul- appetizer, in Germany he was in- thought he’d learn a lot about troduced to brotzeit, or “bread the process of growing it and ture). While most bakers work in time.” Christopher MacLeod of Laune Bread checks bread and pretzels as they rise. transforming it into flour. When “It seemed more like a per- While most bakers work in the early morning hours when no one else is he got here, he discovered that the early morning hours when no one else is awake, MacLeod sonal meal,” MacLeod observed. awake, MacLeod bakes in the early evening and delivers the next morning there weren’t any local bak- by bicycle. With that model, he can interact with his customers. “I get a lot ers using local wheat. And they bakes in the early evening and Continued on page 15 of feedback,” MacLeod pointed out. (Photo by Tesha M. Christensen) weren’t making German-style delivers the next morning by bi- breads either, but instead, the cycle. With that model, he can in- majority of them were baking teract with his customers. “I get a white breads and yeasty breads. lot of feedback,” MacLeod point- He’s worked to identify local ed out. growers who use organic and sus- Most bakeries are pretty Transition Longfellow tainable methods, including Bak- wasteful, and much of what they ers Field in Northeast and Whole make gets thrown in the trash at By LESLIE MACKENZIE Grain Milling, and buys his flour the end of the day. With a sub- from them. scription service, MacLeod bakes to order and has very little waste. Transition Longfellow plans October activities Connections All of his breads are sour- dough, which makes them easi- On Fri., Oct., 21, Transition a good time to plant bulbs for Currently, MacLeod bakes two er to digest and healthier. While Meditative Movements Long­fellow will show the movie, spring flowering. They will be days a week in the kitchen at Sun many bakers add sourdough for Meditative Movement is a prac- “A Simpler Way; Crisis as Op- talking about flowering bulbs Street Breads, 4600 Nicolet Ave. flavor, they still use yeast. Mac­ tice of simple breath, body and portunity.” People in developed as well as growing garlic in your S. The owner there began by bak- Leod relies on naturally leaven- mind exercises to improve and nations across the world un- home garden. Free. support mental and physical derstand that our current way health. Deb Davis has been cer- of life has resulted in overlap- tified in this practice and will be Cold Frame ping environmental, cultural leading free workshops before Make a Cold Frame, Sat., Oct. 8, and economic crises. Something 3rd Friday movie nights, from 10am-noon, 4324 40th Ave. S. has to change, but how do we 5:30-6:30pm (on Oct. 21). You Thanks to a donation of begin? do not need to stay for the movie old windows, Transition mem- “We are the generation in to do this activity. bers will be building low-cost between stories,” the film’s nar- cold frames that protect plants rator says, “desperately clinging A Day of Food so they can be put outside ear- to yesterday but uncertain of to- lier in the spring. This is a fami- A Day of Food Skillshares is being morrow. But perhaps the new ly-friendly group building activi- planned for Sat., Oct. 29, 9am- story is already with us. Perhaps ty. The materials will be prepared 3pm (location to be determined). we just need to live it into exis- in advance, and the cold frames Details for this event are not yet tence.” will be assembled on Saturday. finalized, but the day will include This 2016 documenta- No building skills needed; if you a variety of food-related classes ry, made in association with have a power drill, please bring and hands-on workshops covering the Simplicity Institute, fol- it. RSVP at the group’s website, topics such as fermentation, can- lows a group of Australians www.transitionlongfellow.org, to ning, making bread and flavored who agreed to participate in a reserve your spot. There will be vinegar. Eureka Recycling will lead year-long experiment in living, a fee for materials, but it has not a workshop on reducing food called “The Simpler Way Proj- yet been determined. Watch the waste. Special guest Debra Ramage ect.” While building tiny houses website for details. and planting gardens, the par- will provide information on the ticipants learned vital lessons environmental impacts of specific Knitting Group about how to live in a commu- food choices so people can choose nity. Although this experimen- a diet that best fits their values. CANCELLED – the group’s 1st tal eco-village was located in a Tuesday knitting group has been rural area, what lessons might First Saturday canceled until further notice due to an illness of the instructor. If we learn in simple living and Garlic and Spring Bulbs (1st you know how to knit and would community building that we Sat.) will be the focus on Oct. like to share your skills with oth- can apply here in an urban area? 1, 10:30am-noon, at Riverview ers, your help would be welcome. The film will be shown at Wine Bar, 3747 42nd Ave. S. Contact Leslie at leslie.macken- Bethany Lutheran, 3901 36th (enter through the coffee shop). [email protected] Ave. S. There is a potluck dinner Join master gardeners Les- at 6:30 (vegetarian options al- lie MacKenzie and/or Theresa Visit the group’s website for more ways available), and the movie Rooney every first Saturday for information: www.transitionlongfel- begins at 7pm, with discussion garden tips and Q&A on your low.org. For more info, call (612) to follow. Free will donation. garden questions. October is 724-4265. www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com • Messenger • October 2016 Page 5 One-man show hopes to illuminate the life of Whitman Patrick Scully takes his decade-long embrace of Walt Whitman back to the stage with a new performance

By JAN WILLMS over a decade ago, the fi rst thing ceptable. Scully took that show have been different if he had not Above: In “Whitman, Leaves of Bringing the life of Ameri- I did was create a dance piece,” to New York and gave several had his roots in the world of Grass Illuminated,” Patrick Scully can poet, essayist, and journal- Scully recalled. “There was a seg- performances there. This summer dance. said that the theatrical trick is that ist Walt Whitman to the stage ment of a poem he wrote that is he did a version called “Leaves Scully considers his work everybody has to believe that he, is something that Patrick Scully a litany of body parts and works of Grass Unplugged,” doing the with choreographer Remy Char- as Whitman, has been allowed to has been working on and nurtur- its way from the head to the toes. show in friends’ backyards. The lip to be foundational. He first cross back over from the other side. ing for more than a decade. The So my fi rst grappling with Whit- show at Hook and Ladder will be danced with Charlip in 1984 in (Photo by Sara Rubinstein) founder of Patrick’s Cabaret will man was using that poem and a premiere of a leaner show, with New York, and he said he found bring his latest one-man show dancing to it.” just Scully live on stage, and the the experience to be something on “Whitman, Leaves of Grass As Scully explored the ma- dancers present via video projec- so heartfelt and so healing that can continue to perform for a Illuminated,” to the Hook and terial, he realized there was a tion onto elements in the set. he wanted an opportunity to pay long time. “Many think of Whit- Ladder Theater, 3010 Minnehaha lot more that he wanted to do “That was my intent in doing that forward. “I wanted to have a man as an old man in a wheel- Ave., Oct. 13-15, and Oct. 20-22. than just one dance piece, so his the big cast version two and a chance to share with the men in chair. Even if I become infi rm, I All shows are at 8pm except for a project just grew from there. “I half years ago,” Scully said. “I this piece some of the delights I can still do Whitman. I think of 4pm matinee Oct. 15. fully believe there are more than hired a dance videographer who had dancing with Remy,” Scully Hal Holbrook, who started his Scully explained that his life a thousand shows on Whitman, would come in and shoot the said. one-man shows of Mark Twain as a performer has been about and this is just Patrick Scully’s dancers in rehearsal and perfor- In this Whitman presenta- when he was only 29, and he has performing his own work on show.” mance. In that way, I would have tion, Scully said that the theat- kept doing them all his life. He is stage, most of it autobiographi- The fi rst presentation of his rich footage to draw on when I rical trick is that everybody has now in his nineties.” cal. “I have dealt a lot with being Whitman work was offered in did this show. The excerpts of to believe that he, as Whitman, Scully said he hopes that a gay man in a world that wasn’t July 2014 at Illusion Theater. It those dancers create a kind of has been allowed to cross back people who may have seen the quite ready for gay people to be featured Scully and another actor, layering in the process that I had over from the other side. He has Whitman performance with a as out and as open as I was eager as well as 18 male dancers and to go through to get to where I’ll about 75 minutes to spend with large cast, or who may have seen to be,” he said. was a mega production. It was be in October.” the audience to talk about how the backyard unplugged version, “With ‘Whitman,’ I contin- titled “Leaves of Grass Uncut.” Although most of Scul- things were. will also come to this show. “I ue to work with these very simi- Scully explained that uncut was ly’s performance art has been In order to do that, his text call this version “Leaves of Grass lar themes, but just on someone a play on words, but it shone a as a choreographer, he does not is about 50 percent of words that Illuminated” because of the clear from a different historical peri- light on the way culture has cen- dance in this Whitman piece. But come directly from Whitman in reference to shining a light on od—someone whose life has sored Whitman to make him ac- he thinks his presentation would poetry, letters he wrote, or mem- something, but also illuminated mirrored my own in some ways, ories of conversations he par- manuscripts with added beauty but someone whose challenges ticipated in; another portion of on the page. And I use the video have been different.” Scully con- the text comes from things that projectors to illuminate parts of sidered it an opportunity to work other people, such as Emerson the set.” with someone whose name was or Thoreau, said; and a third of “I would like to see what well recognized but whose sen- the monologue is language that viewers think are the advantag- suality is often not known. He Scully had to invent to sew it all es of the different versions,” he called the one-man play a way to together. added. out Walt Whitman in a manner Over the past few years, As Scully continues to work that Whitman would have liked. Scully has read 55 books by and and refine his show, he said he “Whitman had a utopian vi- about Whitman. “The intention might tweak something he wrote. sion of what men’s relationships was to have a broad enough un- But if the words were from Whit- could be, and how that could derstanding of him so that if I man, he might edit them but not transform not just locally but the were doing a show for Whitman rearrange the word structure. “I world,” Scully said. “He saw it as scholars, I could morph this try to stick as faithfully to it as I a balm for the crass materialism show to make it more specifi- can,” he said. that he saw in his time.” cally interesting for them. Or if Scully, who got his master’s “You think about Whitman I’m doing it in Germany, I could in 2008 in teaching English as as a gardener,” Scully continued. make it more relevant to German a second language, is currently “He was not only someone who literature and German writers.” teaching part-time at the Univer- tended his garden but expand- Scully has applied for a grant sity of Minnesota. But most of ed it as life went on. So although to present the show to 23 towns his artistic focus is on the Whit- ‘Leaves of Grass’ was his life’s in Minnesota, and he will know man shows. “Right now in my work, when he fi rst published it in November if he receives it. For creative life, this pretty much in 1855, it was a very thin vol- Whitman’s 200th birthday on takes up all the space and ener- ume. When he published the May 31, 2017, he is hoping to do gy I have,” he said. “Recently I deathbed version in 1892, it was a large cast version of the show at have been thinking about other a pretty fat volume. He didn’t the Brooklyn Academy of Music things I might do. There’s noth- just add to it. Like a gardener, he “Whitman had a utopian vision of what men’s relationships could be, and in New York City. ing concrete yet, but little wisps pruned and trimmed.” how that could transform not just locally but the world,” Patrick Scully said. “I hope to take this show all of thought come drifting through “When I got the idea to work “He saw it as a balm for the crass materialism that he saw in his time.” over the world,” Scully said. He my head and then evaporate and with Whitman’s material a little (Photo by Chris Cameron) also believes it is a show that he drift away.”

Page 6 October 2016 • Messenger • www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com Coldwater Spring — a place to learn about the past and present Story and photos preservationist, wrote in the by MARGIE O’LOUGHLIN Coldwater Journal that, “Cold- Coldwater Spring, be- water became the birthplace of tween Minnehaha Park and Fort Minnesota when Army troops Snelling (5601 Minnehaha Dr. camped there from 1820- S.), is public land on which to 1823. They mined the nearby hike, run, dog walk, bird watch, limestone bluffs to build Fort refl ect on the twists and turns of Snelling. Coldwater Spring fur- history, and enjoy nature. nished water to the fort for 100 Only two years after Cold- years. The water there still fl ows water Spring was added to our at a rate of about 80,000 gallons national park system in 2010, per day.” 12 buildings were removed, as “For thousands of years be- were thousands of significant fore the arrival of the soldiers (and lamented) trees. Thirteen and settlers,” Jeffrey continued, of its 29 acres were replanted “Coldwater Spring had been with trees, shrubs, grasses and used by Native people as a tra- wildflowers. Now part of the ditional gathering place. Called Mississippi National River and Mni Owe Sni in the Dakota Recreation Area, the goal of the language, tribes that are known National Park Service (NPS) to have gathered at Coldwater was, and is, to restore the area Spring included the Dakota, An- to a prairie oak savanna—a com- ishinabe, Ho Chuck, Iowa, Sauk munity of scattered oak trees and Fox people.” above a layer of prairie grasses While the repurposing of and wildfl owers. The restoration Coldwater Spring has both its is ongoing, and will take many fans and its opponents, the land years to complete. remains an outdoor classroom Susu Jeffrey, activist and where visitors can experience The original stone spring house still stands. The rate of Coldwater Spring’s fl ow diminished greatly with the recon- lessons of natural history and struction of Hiawatha Ave., but remains at an output of about 80,000 gallons per day. ecology specific to the Upper Mississippi River site. October’s Second Saturday bird identification,” Stiteler said, Friends of Coldwater has is about discovering the ancient “maybe a few tips and tricks, meet been offering full moon hikes side of Coldwater through fossil local birders and have fun. We will there every month for 16 years. hunting and identifi cation. have binoculars, spotting scopes In September, they held their Coldwater Spring is what is and digiscopes on hand to try.” Sti- annual Harvest Moon Hike and known as a fossiliferous park (rich teler works as a park ranger, bird sing-along. (To see their October with fossils) due to Minnesota hav- tour guide, photographer, and au- schedule, visit friendsofcoldwa- ing been covered by an ocean some thor. For more information, con- ter.org.) They hike in every kind 400 million years ago. Join NPS tact her directly at www.birdchick- of weather; no registration is rangers to see what ancient history com. required, and the walks are free can be found in the park, and earn To visit Coldwater Spring, and open to the public. a special-edition Paleontologist Ju- from Hwy 55/Hiawatha, turn The non-profi t organization nior Ranger badge. This program is east (toward the Mississippi) at Mississippi Park Connection free and open to the public on Oct. 54th St., take an immediate right, provides opportunities for peo- 8, 9am-noon. and drive south on the front- ple to connect with the river and On Oct. 5, local birding celeb age road for one-half mile past have a national park experience. Sharon Stiteler (aka the Bird Chick) the parking meters. Keep going In addition to ongoing pro- will be leading an event she calls through the cul-de-sac, past the grams for members, Mississippi The Big Sit at Coldwater Spring Coldwater Spring entrance sign Park Connections offers public from 7:30am-6:30pm. Birders of and into the free parking lot. A mature Burr Oak provides an programming on the second Sat- all levels are encouraged to come Park hours are from 6am–10pm. over-story for the seeded prairie Native plants like Goldenrod and Pur- urday of each month, June-Oct., by for any amount of time. “This Dogs are welcome, but must be below. This is the basis of a prai- ple Aster cover the area in late fall. at Coldwater Spring. is a great place to learn about leashed at all times. rie-oak savanna, once one of the Visit www.parkconnection.org most common ecosystems in the to learn more about membership Midwest. Intact prairie oak savan- and programming. nas are now quite rare.

www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com • Messenger • October 2016 Page 7 Lake Nokomis hosts super send-off for monarchs Photos by JILL BOOGREN Thousands of people came to the Monarch Festival-Festival de la Monarca at Lake Nokomis in Septem- ber to celebrate the mighty monarchs beginning their 2,300-mile journey from Minnesota to Mexico for the winter. Festivities included music, dancing, art, poetry, games and other opportunities to learn about the life cycle and migration of these magnifi cent little creatures.

Maya (left) and Kai Riedner pose for photos.

Maisie and her person Cora Freeman sport their wings while in line for La Loma tamales. From left: Festival volunteers Sheila Heskin, Steve Plachinsky, and Monica Romero explain the value of composting organics for monarchs: Compost- ing returns nutrients to the soil, which in turn grows milkweed and other plants the butterfl ies need to survive. “Healthy plants equals healthy mon- archs,” said Romero. To sign up for free curbside organics pickup, residents can contact Solid Waste and Recycling at 612-673-2917.

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Page 8 October 2016 • Messenger • www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com Lake Nokomis hosts super send-off for monarchs Photos by JILL BOOGREN Thousands of people came to the Monarch Festival-Festival de la Monarca at Lake Nokomis in Septem- ber to celebrate the mighty monarchs beginning their 2,300-mile journey from Minnesota to Mexico for the winter. Festivities included music, dancing, art, poetry, games and other opportunities to learn about the life cycle and migration of these magnifi cent little creatures.

Erica Pizarro (left) and Anayli Remarche volunteer as hosts of Monarch Jeopardy. Question: How many monarchs do scientists believe migrate south in winter? Answer: 50 million

A poem by Sofi a hangs at Poetry Mobile.

Tara Fahey (left) and Nicole Amaris of Chicks on Sticks bring butterfl y love to new heights.

www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com • Messenger • October 2016 Page 9 Join LCC at the Best Meeting Ever on October 18! LCC is hosting its Best Meeting NOTICE Ever General Membership Meet- ing from 5:30-8:15pm Tuesday, LCC Proposes NRP Plan October 18 at Minnehaha Acade- my North, 3100 West River Park- Modification—Review and Vote way. This popular neighborhood event will include a buffet featur- Held at October 18th General ing delicious dishes from restau- rants in Greater Longfellow, an Membership Meeting update on LCC and committees, a vote on future spending, raffle LCC is proposing a plan mod- be sent to LCC’s email lists. prizes from local businesses, a Re- ification that will contract source Fair, and the opportunity 346,932.42 of Phase I Hous- The funding will be used for to meet your neighbors. It really is ing Program Income funding the following activities: the best meeting ever! For details, (Phase I Major Remodeling Program) into Phase II Admin- • $150,000 to pay for staff and go to http://www.longfellow.org/ administrative overhead to the-best-meeting-ever/. istrative and program fund- ing. Program Income is fund- support the LCC operations ing that has been returned to in 2017, 2018 and 2019; Longfellow Chili Cook Off Set for Sunday, November 13 the organization from low-in- • $100,000 to create a pro- The Longfellow Community terest housing loan repay- gram to assist residents and Council’s Annual Chili Cook Off ments. property owners to make and Fundraiser is set for 5-7pm property repairs based on The Neighborhood Revital- Sunday, November 13 at Gand- citations from the City of ization Program (NRP) and hi Mahal Restaurant, 3009 27 Minneapolis Inspections, Neighborhood and Commu- Ave S. The deadline to enter and nity Relations Department a chili is Wednesday, Novem- (NCRD) require that Plan Mod- ber 9. Chili categories will be • $96,932.42 to provide mar- ifications greater than $25,000 ‘Spicy,’ ‘Meat,’ and ‘Vegetar- keting and communications require community notifica- ian,’ and there will be a Best support to local businesses tion and a community vote Overall Winner who will go through a Business Support for approval. The LCC Board home with the coveted Long- Network (BSN) of Directors approved this fellow Chili Cook Off Cup, a proposed plan modification Total Funding: $346,932.42 traveling trophy. Businesses at the September 15th Board will compete under a separate meeting and is recommend- For additional information, category. Advanced tickets ing it to the community for please contact LCC’s Execu- will be on sale at Gandhi Ma- approval. Notice of this meet- tive Director Melanie Majors hal, as well as online at www. ing is also being advertised at [email protected] or squareup.com/market/longfel- in the LCC Insider and Weekly via phone at (612) 722-4529 low-community-council/chili- Round-up newsletters and will ext. 14. cook-off.

be included on all the promo- ty. LCC listens to your feedback for $25, shirts for $15, and onesies worked intensively with commu- Registration Open tional materials generated for about what’s important to you and children’s shirts for $12. There nity members and elected offi- for Best Meeting the meeting, including the pro- in Longfellow—everything from are also copies of this year’s “Long- cials to successfully advance nu- gram. To register, go to www. cleaning up the Mississippi Riv- fellow365” available. Merchandise merous community development Ever Resource Fair longfellow.org/the-best-meet- er to facilitating discussions be- is available at the LCC office, 2727 and sustainability initiatives. Ash- ing-ever/resourcefairregistra- tween residents and local govern- 26th Ave S, or online at www.long- leigh is passionate about sustain- Registration is open through tion/. ment. We fund and organize pro- fellow.org/store. ability, community building, and Friday, October 14 for LCC’s grams, projects, events and activ- also coffee, traveling, and finding Best Meeting Ever Resource ities to work with our neighbors, new places to eat curry. Fair, held from 5:30-6:30pm Support LCC on policy makers and government LCC Hires New Tuesday, October 18 at Min- officials to improve and sustain nehaha Academy North, 3100 November 17 Program Manager our neighborhood. To support West River Parkway. Tables LCC on Give to the Max, go to Ashleigh Walter is LCC’s new and chairs will be provided for through Give to www.givemn.org/organization/ Program Manager and joins the all participants and organiza- the Max 2016! Longfellow. organization in October 2016. tions. The cost to participate Proud to call herself a Bennie, in the Resource Fair is $25 for Give to the Max is set for Thurs- day, November 17, and we hope Ashleigh left her hometown of companies/organizations and Give the Gift of Billings, Montana to complete a $20 for non-profit organiza- you’ll support LCC! As you know, LCC is Greater Longfellow’s B.A. in Environmental Studies at tions. Registration fees can be Longfellow this the College of St. Benedict in St. paid by check (made out to the neighborhood organization, and we’re dedicated to making Long- Holiday Season! Joseph. After landing previous Longfellow Community Coun- experience in various non-prof- cil) or online. LCC is also offer- fellow the best neighborhood it The holidays are just around the can be. We’re the neighborhood’s it roles, Ashleigh finished a ing sponsorship levels at this corner, and LCC has everything you 15-month internship in the mu- year’s event! If your business “go-to” source for questions need to celebrate Longfellow. This about development, safety, liv- nicipal government sector with or organization donates $50 year’s design features the Brackett the City of Delano, where she or more to LCC, your logo will ability, and building communi- Rocket. Options include sweatshirts

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Page 10 October 2016 • Messenger • www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com SENA searches for sense of direction as it fashions new plan Residents encouraged to share what they value in the neighborhood and how to help neighbors make better connections By TESHA M. CHRISTENSEN SENA was instrumental in neighborhood for anywhere What do you want your helping to form the West of else. neighborhood to look like? the Rail Business Association, Share your opinions in the and still continues to provide In search of direction Standish-Ericsson neighborhood essential support to this group The online survey will be online survey at https://www.sur- to help support neighborhood open through the fall. Consul- veymonkey.com/r/6SBHZB6. businesses. tants have also been conduct- “We’ve had a great response Last year, SENA partnered ing one-on-one interviews with to the survey, with more than with Folwell Performing Arts neighborhood stakeholders. 300 responses, which is at least School and artist Greta McLain The SENA board will con- 100 more responses than the to apply for and receive a Min- vene retreat events this fall and last SENA survey eight years nesota State Arts Board grant winter, and the plan will be ago,” noted Standish-Ericsson to do the large Connections presented to the public at the Neighborhood Association mural on the south side of Fol- annual meeting in February or (SENA) Board President Molly well’s building. “It’s quite im- March. McCartney. pressive and was a true ‘com- “My hopes for this process The survey is the first step in munity’ project,” said Yeoman. is to learn what our residents fashioning a new strategic plan “SENA is a great resource value about our community and for SENA. for the neighborhood to learn how SENA can help neighbors This new plan will guide more about what is happen- make better connections with SENA for the next three to five ing around us and a way to each other,” remarked McCart- years. become involved in making ney. “I also hope for a practical “SENA has been dealing with our neighborhoods a great work plan that can guide the or- a changing financial future and SENA staff members Bob Kambeitz and Shirley Yeoman serve as “a conduit to place to live, work, and play,” collect the energy and talent of neighborhood folks and help funnel that back ganization in the next 3-5 years.” neighborhood demographics said McCartney, who has lived “I am very hopeful that this for the last few years,” remarked into the neighborhood in a way that produces positive programs and benefits in Standish for over 12 years. for everyone,” according to Yeoman. (Photo by Tesha M. Christensen) process will help SENA find a McCartney. “With the sunsetting “The value of SENA can be strong sense of direction and of the Neighborhood Revitaliza- seen every day—from the beau- help us set some very specific tion Program (NRP), the ‘retire- (CPP). These funds provide funds. Those include home im- tiful public art we have orga- goals. Those two things will help ment’ of a long-term volunteer basic administration and some provement loans and grants, a nized at locals schools, busi- guide decisions about staffing base, and many new neighbors communication and communi- new playground and upgrad- ness, and utility boxes, to the and purpose,” said Yeoman. in Standish-Ericsson, it became ty event dollars, but nothing for ed building at Lake Hiawatha connections that board mem- “I am also very hopeful that a good time to reevaluate how programming, Yeoman noted. Park, commercial improvement bers, staff, and volunteers many more people will get in- SENA can best support our com- “So, SENA needs to develop a grants, bicycle racks, home make with policy makers, other volved in the work required to munity and its needs.” new ‘plan’ to help guide our safety programs and grants, a community organizations, and achieve the goals we set.” work in the neighborhood,” she wonderful neighborhood news- our neighbors.” Helping the neighborhood said. letter, and more.” She wouldn’t trade her SENA was formed at the begin- ning of the NRP (Neighborhood What does SENA do? Revitalization Program) to access SENA’s most important the funds allocated for neighbor- role in the neighborhood, ac- hoods. cording to Yeoman, “is to serve SENA Neighborhood Co- as a conduit to collect the ener- ordinator Shirley Yeoman has gy and talent of neighborhood worked at SENA since 1996 and folks and help funnel that back will retire at the end of this year. into the neighborhood in a “The NRP plans developed by way that produces positive pro- residents through an extensive grams and benefits for every- community engagement process one. guided our work for many years,” “The conduit can also work explained Yeoman, who lives a the opposite direction in that few blocks out of SENA in the we can be the ‘collecting place’ Hiawatha neighborhood. “We for information about resourc- did such a good job of utilizing es available and information those funds for projects in the that impacts people who live neighborhood that our alloca- here and then get that informa- tions have been spent (mostly— tion out to our residents.” except for some small remaining Recently SENA has been pots.)” working on a water quality Minneapolis chose not to project funded by Hennepin renew the NRP Program but cre- County to raise awareness of ated a new funding source for how everyday actions can neighborhood groups called the help keep Lake Hiawatha, Citizen Participation Program Minnehaha Creek and the Mississippi River clean and healthy. “With the sunsetting It is sponsoring the mural being painted on the Dokken The new mural being painted on the Dokken Building at the 28th Ave S. and 42nd St. E. intersection is sponsored of the Neighborhood Building at the 28th Ave S. and by the Standish-Ericsson Neighborhood Association (SENA). In August, community members gathered to help Revitalization Program 42nd St. E. intersection. paint. It is being finished by Roosevelt High School students. (Photo submitted) The organization is also (NRP), the ‘retirement’ working to develop a Skill- Share program where neigh- of a long-term bors teach and learn skills from one another. In April, volunteer base, and the focus was on bike main- many new neighbors in tenance, and in May it was on growing native plants. Standish-Ericsson, it SENA has just completed the distribution of a $30,000 became a good time to Great Streets Facade Improve- reevaluate how SENA ment Program grant that helps businesses make exterior im- can best support our provements, and SENA hopes to receive additional grants in community and its the future. It may renew its Welcome needs.” Committee program shortly. “There are many accom- —SENA Board plishments since the inception SENA has just completed distribution of a $30,000 Great Streets Facade of SENA,” stated Yeoman. “We Improvement Program grant that helps businesses make exterior improve- President Molly brought nearly $4 million in ments, and hopes to receive additional grants in the future. Among those McCartney improvements and programs that benefitted from the program was Everetts Foods at Cedar and 38th. to the neighborhood with NRP (Photos submitted) www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com • Messenger • October 2016 Page 11 In Our Community

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tive, and its commitment to the on Wed., Oct. 26, 5:30-8pm in the improvement of mathe- Annual rummage Correction community, Minnehaha Com- at Epworth United Methodist matics and science education.” munion Lutheran Church is Church. 3207 37th Ave. S. Dinner MPS Superintendent Ed sale scheduled Oct. 1 sponsoring the evening to raise starts at 5:30, and the movie Graff also congratulated Fierst, Minnehaha Communion Luth- funds in support SLRJP. The Re- at 6:30. After the movie, there saying she is an “outstanding role eran Church (4101 37th Ave. S.) storative Justice Partnership was will be a discussion about the model who provides passionate, will hold their annual rummage selected because it seeks to re- movie and what we can do today. student-focused education.” sale on Sat., Oct. 1. The sale build relationships between peo- This event is open to everyone. “Fierst is a devoted educator runs from 9am–1pm with bag ple when an offense has taken Childcare is provided. for her students, an inspiration time starting at noon. Lunch is place. The project, “[promotes] to her colleagues and a com- served with the best sloppy joes reconciliation and healing with mitted partner with families and and homemade bars available for our youth and within our com- Storytelling and the South community. By creat- purchase. Stop by and check out munity.... Its mission is to build ing authentic relationships with what they have! community by providing the op- singing planned her students and approaching her portunity to repair harm by in- Join singer/songwriter Tim Hou- work with a social justice lens, she volving the victim, offender, and lihan as he leads a round-robin helps students see the real-world Get your tickets now community in solutions that pro- of artists telling stories and play- applications and implications of mote healing, accountability, and ing songs based around a differ- their education,” Gaff said. for “The Rivals” reconciliation.” ent theme each Saturday from Corcoran Park Players will pres- A free-will donation will be 7-9pm. Seating is limited at the ent “The Rivals” by Richard taken at the door. All funds raised DEMO Center For Music, 3520 E. Healthy Seniors Brinsley Sheridan for three per- will go directly to The Restorative 28th St., so plan to arrive early! plan programs formances at Lake Nokomis Lu- Editor’s Note: We apologize Justice Partnership. People can Refreshments are available or theran Church. to Jean Shannon for the mis- come anytime between 6:30- BYOB. Nokomis Healthy Seniors will The production plays Fri.- take we made in the last issue 8:30pm to enjoy some bluegrass Programs will feature: hold “Health and Enrichment Sat., Nov. 13-14, at 7:30pm, and of the Longfellow Nokomis music (www.thebiscuitboyband. —Oct. 1: Annie Fitzgerald, Brian Program: Physical Therapy” on Sun., Nov. 15 at 2pm. Perfor- Messenger. In the LoLa Art com) and a special treat! Larson, and Brett Johnson; Wed., Oct. 12, 1:30-2:30pm at mances will take place at Lake Crawl photo collage we ran —Oct. 8: Nici Peper and Simon Nokomis Square Cooperative, Nokomis Lutheran Church, 5011 her image “Cat,” but with the Husbands; and 5015-335th Ave. S. 31st Ave. S. Admission is free wrong information under it. Baked Potato Dinner —Oct. 15, Carey Keavey and J.J. On Thur., Nov. 3, 11:15am- with donations to the Food Shelf. The information should have planned Oct. 31 Benson noon, the Health and Enrich- Phone 612-274-4539 for been: ment Program will be at Bethel ticket reservations. Jean Shannon is one of The Annual Baked Potato Din- Lutheran Church, 4120 17th Ave. the original organizers of LoLa. ner will be held at Faith Ev. 2016 Lake St. Bash S. The topic will be “Keeping Shannon is a printmaker— Lutheran Church, 3430 E. 51st Your Brain Healthy,” Centennial Singers woodblock prints, monoprints, St., on Reformation Sun., Oct. 31, scheduled Nov. 10 Both programs are free, and stencil and screen prints using beginning at 11:30am. The menu The 2016 Lake St. Bash will be no reservations are necessary. concert scheduled imagery drawn from years of includes a large baked potato, held Thur., Nov. 10, 5:30-8:30pm The Augsburg Centennial Singers living in Japan and her interest a variety of toppings, salad bar, at El Nuevo Rodeo 3rd Floor will present a concert on Sat., Oct. in folk art. “I like printmaking beverage, and pie. Cost is $9 for Ballroom, 3003 27th Ave. Cel- Health Fair 22, at 7pm at Trinity Lutheran because it is a democratic art, adults, $5 for children fi ve years ebrate the corridor’s nooks and scheduled Oct. 17 Church of Minnehaha Falls, available to all. Whether the to 12 years, under fi ve, free, or a crannies at the Lake St. Council’s 5212 41st Ave. S. The community image is a folk toy or a deity, I family ticket for $25. Proceeds go annual fundraiser. There will be There will be a Health Fair on is invited to enjoy this vibrant hope that it awakens an inter- to Faith’s Education Fund. delectable Mexican cuisine from Mon., Oct. 17, 11:45am-1:30pm, men’s chorus under the direction est in cross-cultural meanings El Nuevo Rodeo, live music, beer at Bethel Lutheran Church, of Paul Christensen. No tickets and gives visual delight. and wine samples, plus silent 4120 17th Ave. S. The fair will are needed; a free-will offering Longfellow Garden auction items from hundreds of include a soup lunch, fl u shots, will be taken. For more informa- Club meets Oct. 1 Lake St. businesses. Parking is blood pressure checks, and re- tion, call 612-724-3691. N.A. group meets available at U.S. Bank (2800 E. sources, followed by a speaker on Stop weeding and have supper Lake St.), and tickets are $30 pre- “Advanced Care Planning” from every Friday at El Norteno on Wed., Oct. 12, sale and $40 at the door. Fairview Health Services. The fair Faith Book Club A Narcotics Anonymous group with the Longfellow gardening Want to donate a silent is jointly presented by Nokomis meets every Friday evening at 7pm folks to celebrate the 2016 grow- auction item? Contact ZoeAna Healthy Seniors, Longfellow- scheduled Oct. 8 at Faith Evangelical Lutheran, ing season and to ask “How Did Martinez at 612-822-1912 or Seward Healthy Seniors, TRUST, The Faith Evangelical Church 3430 E. 51st St. All are welcome Your Gardens Grow?” [email protected]. and CoAm. Please call ahead to Book Club meets Sat., Oct. to attend. A fabulous fall, tomatoes 612-729-5499 if you want fl u 8, at 12:30am at the Church, galore, some still ripening in the shot at the Fair. 3430 E. 51st St. Come for a window sill — what more could Lunch and a Movie discussion of the book “The AA and NA meets a gardener ask? Compare notes and fi nd out. planned Oct. 27 Round House” by Louise Every Monday night there is an Danish Center plans Insects may have had their Erdrich, and for fellowship. AA meeting at 7pm at Minnehaha Join friends for lunch and a movie way with your cukes and the bee- monthly breakfasts (Please note change of day and Communion Lutheran Church (“The Trouble with Harry”) tles with your roses, but some of time for this month.) (4101 37th Ave. S.), and every Oct. 27, 11:30am-2pm at Bethel Danish American Center, 3030 us have bee and butterfl y-friend- Tuesday and Wednesday night Lutheran Church, 4120 17th Ave. W. River Pkwy., has scheduled ly ways of limiting their damage. there is an AA meeting at 7:30pm. S.. RSVP for this event to 612- their yearly Aebleskiver Break- Bring your tips for smart and Open House Wellness On Thursday night, there is an 729-5499. fasts. Mark your calendars with healthy gardening and your ques- NA meeting at 7:30pm. All are the breakfast dates for Oct.16, tions. We’ll use them to brain- Fair planned Oct. 1 welcome to attend. Nov. 20 (with the Art Fair), Jan. storm activities and topics for An Open House and Wellness Local teacher given 15, Feb. 12 (Valentine’s Day next year’s programs. Brunch), Mar. 19, Apr. 23, and Fair will be held on Sat., Oct. Supper starts when you can Presidential Award 1 from 12:30-5pm at Big River Benefi t planned for May 14 (Mother’s Day Brunch). arrive, beginning at 5:30pm, and The cost for regular “all you Yoga, 3336 E. 25th St. From discussion will wind down about South High math teacher Morgan 1-3pm there will be free mini Restorative Justice Fierst has been named a recipi- can eat and drink” breakfasts is $9 8pm. per adult and $5 for children ages sessions with local holistic A benefit concert for Seward ent of the Presidential Award for El Norteno is located at the 5-12. Younger children are free. wellness providers such as Thai Longfellow Restorative Justice Excellence in Mathematics and NE corner of E. Lake St. and 40th The menu includes aebleskiver massage, Health Coaching, Partnership (SLRJP) will be held Science Teaching (PAEMST). Ave. (Danish pancake balls), scram- Acupuncture, and Ayurveda Sat., Oct. 8, 6:30-8:30pm at the According to the PAEMST bled eggs, sausage, juice, and cof- as well as local artists. Free Longfellow Community Center, website, the awards “are the na- fee. (Brunches have a different Yoga Class (mixed levels) is at 3435 36th Ave. S. The event will tion’s highest honors for teach- Dinner and a Movie cost and menu). Every breakfast 3:30pm. Everyone is welcome feature “The Biscuit Boys” and ers of mathematics and science runs from 9:30am-12:30pm and to stop in, say hello, enjoy their a dessert bar provided by local (including computer science). planned Oct. 26 no reservation is required. sampling of services and eat restaurants/bakeries. Awardees serve as models for Dinner and a Movie will present some treats! In keeping with its Hope, their colleagues, inspiration to “Selma: Bridge to the Ballot” Healing, and Wholeness Initia- their communities, and leaders Continued on page 13

Page 12 October 2016 • Messenger • www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com 4120 17th Ave. S. Karen Notsch, tercolor: Colors Galore” classes lack of self-control and defiant In Our Community Arts, Crafts & Bake Crime Prevention Specialist, on Thursdays, Oct. 13 and Nov. behavior, this event is for you. Continued from page 12 Minneapolis Police Department, 17 from 1:30-3pm at St. Peder’s Discover why your child pushes Sale planned Oct. 15 will speak about personal safety. Lutheran Church, 4600 E. 42nd limits, tries to control everything, St. Peder’s Lutheran Church, The event is free, and no RSVP is St. These classes are designed for and how you can transform your Volunteers needed 4600 E. 42nd St., will hold their needed. those who took the first watercol- home into an enjoyable space Arts, Crafts and Bake Sale on Sat., or series this spring, or for expe- rather than a war zone. In this in the river gorge Oct. 15, noon-3pm. The sale will rienced watercolor artists. Class- interactive presentation, you Just off the main path along the feature locally made fiber arts, Adoption support es are $5/each. Oct. 13 will be a will receive solutions from the Minneapolis riverfront lies a sur- Nordic crafts, artisan jewelry and guided ocean sunset, and Nov. Mad2Glad Blueprint that are key prisingly beautiful and rare oak more. Lefse and krumkake will group meets Oct. 4 17 will be watercolor on book- to having a calmer, more coop- savanna and woodlands tended be made fresh all afternoon, and The Adoption Support Network marks. Registration is due one erative child and restoring your by River Gorge Stewards volun- pie and fair trade coffee will be holds monthly support groups week before each class. sanity. teers. Volunteers are needed to served. at Minnehaha Communion Lu- A monthly Diabetes Support The presentation will take join Friends of the Mississippi theran Church (4101 37th Ave. Group for adults of all ages will place Mon., Oct. 3, 6:45-8:15pm River Sat., Oct. 1, 9-11am, to S.), for parents and teens who be held Oct. 12 from 6:30–8pm at the Minnehaha Academy spend the morning removing Events planned at have been adopted. Next meeting at Hiawatha School Park Recre- Lower & Middle School Chapel, invasive species, hauling brush will be held on Tues., Oct. 4 at ation Center, 4305 E. 42nd St. 4200 W. River Pkwy. and other important restoration E. Lake Library 6:30pm. A Low Vision Support Group Please RSVP for this free event tasks in the oak savanna and Every Sunday - English Conversa- Adoptive parents are provid- will be held on Oct. 11 at 1:30pm at http://info.minnehahaacad- woodland along the Longfellow tion Circles 3-5pm ed with a confidential, non-judg- at Trinity Apartments, 2800 E. emy.net/speaker-series-2016. neighborhood. This area includes Every Friday – Family mental environment where they 31st St. the highest quality plant com- Storytime 10:15 Baby Storytime can support each other and share Also, we’re looking for volun- munities remaining in the River 11:15am resources. Teens are invited to teer drivers and “friendly visitors” Early voting is open Gorge, including a mesic prairie Every Monday, Tuesday, meet other teens who under- for seniors. Call Longfellow/ to all eligible voters and a remnant oak brushland/ Thursday - K to 12th Grade stand what it’s like to be adopted. Seward Healthy Seniors at 612- woodland undergoing restora- Homework Help 3:30-7:30pm The teen group is not a drop-off 729-5799 for more information in Minneapolis tion to oak savanna. Capacity Thur., Oct. 6, 6-8pm, Teen group—parent(s) must attend the on activities, services or volunteer is limited, and registration is Fandom Club parent support group. For more opportunities. Voting for the November elec- required. Learn more at http:// Tues., Oct. 4, 7-8pm, Non- info and to RSVP, contact Ginny tion has already begun, and vot- fmr.org/events/2016/10/01/work- fiction Book Club: When to Rob Blade at 651-646-5082 or ginny- ers can vote early by mail or in day-oak-savanna. a Bank [email protected] (parents); or Art of baton twirling person at one of four locations Wed., Oct. 5, 10:30-11:20am, Christina Romo at 651-644-3036, makes a return around Minneapolis. Biography Book Club: Red Notice ext. 17, or christinaromo@nacac. Eligible voters that plan Rally for Rakhma Wed., Oct. 5, 10:15am, org (teens). Dance-Twirl Minnesota is open- ahead can save themselves from Childcare Group Story Time ing a new location in the neigh- standing in long lines on Elec- scheduled Oct. 1 Tues., Oct. 10, 6:30-7:30pm, borhood at 1611 E. 46th St. tion Day. Absentee voting is On Sat., Oct. 1, the Third Annual Genealogy Research: Finding Longfellow/Seward Baton twirling was once a easy, and any voter may vote Rally for Rakhma will take place Your Latin American Ancestors thriving sport in Minnesota but early. at the Lake Nokomis main beach Fri., Oct. 14, 10:30-11:30am, Healthy Seniors as instructors pursued other av- Early voting (absentee vot- from 9:30-11:30am. This event Adult Book Club: Minneapolis enues, the sport that attracted ing) began Sept. 23. Standard is a fun run, walk or bike ride Underworld October Events thousands of twirlers to the St. hours throughout the absentee around Lake Nokomis to support Sat., Oct. 15, 1-2:30pm, East “Medicare Enrollment: What Paul Winter Carnival soon dis- voting period are 8am-4:30pm, those with memory loss at Ra- Lake Library Writers’ Workshop You Need to Know” will be the appeared. Jacinda Miller, owner Mon.-Fri. During the final two khma Homes. Mon., Oct. 17, 6:30-7:30pm, topic at the Tues., Oct. 18 Senior of Dance-Twirl Minnesota, wants weeks before the election, hours Rakhma is a local nonprofit Quick Reads Book Club: Sula Social/Health Talk, which starts to change that by offering classes will be extended and include that provides a safe, loving home Tues., Oct. 18, 6:30-7:30pm, at 10:30 am and meets at Holy right in the heart of the metro so weekend times. All early voting to those with Alzheimer’s disease East Lake Cultural Series: Japa- Trinity Lutheran Church, 2730 E. more kids can enjoy the sport. hours are posted on the website or dementia. Everyone is invit- nese American Society 31st St. “Twirling is great activity at vote.minneapolismn.gov. ed to set a $100 minimum fund- Thur., Oct. 20, 3-5pm, Lego Two fall Yoga for Seniors for both boys and girls,” Miller Early in-person voting is raising goal and encourage their Lab for Kids classes will be held on Mondays said. “With our proven teaching convenient. It especially helps family and friends to join you or and meet at Bethlehem Covenant strategies kids can feel a sense of voters who need special accom- support you in making a differ- Church, 3141 43rd Ave. S. Gentle accomplishment from their very modations, such as language ence for those with memory loss. Talk on personal Yoga for Seniors is from 10-11am, first day and their confidence support, that the extra time, Awards will be awarded for the and Yoga for Structural Integrity soars as they continue with their attention and on-site resourc- participants who raise the largest safety set Oct. 6 is from 11:15am–12:15pm. Yoga class. Kids also benefit from im- es of early in-person voting af- ford more readily than the polls funds. Nokomis Healthy Seniors will classes from Oct. 3 – Dec. 5 are proving their hand-eye coordina- might on Election Day. All proceeds raised will go to hold a Health and Enrichment offered as a 10-week package for tion, physical fitness and meeting In-person locations (you the addition of our fourth home Program on Personal Safety on $50. new friends.” can choose any of the locations) in Golden Valley. Thur., Oct. 6, 11:-15am-noon, There are still spaces open Dance-Twirl Minnesota start- are: at Bethel Lutheran Church, for the “Tier 2 – Exploring Wa- ed in 2010 with a studio located in Eagan but Miller and Dance —South Early Vote Center, 1860 Director, Jennie Becker, both have E. 28th St., in the former Roof resided in South Minneapolis and Depot building; feel that this area could benefit —Downtown Early Vote Center, from a new variety of performing 217 S. Third St.; Neighborhood Churches Welcome You! arts. Both Miller and Becker have —North Early Vote Center, 2100 coached new to national cham- Plymouth Ave. N., in the Minne- Bethany Lutheran Minnehaha Communion Lutheran St. Albert the Great Catholic pionship athletes. apolis Urban League building; 3901 36th Ave. S. - 612-729-9376 4101 37th Ave. S. • 612-722-9527 E. 29th St. at 32nd Ave. S. • and www.bethanyon36th.com www.minnehahacommunion.com 612-724-3643 —Northeast Early Vote Center, [email protected] Pastors Dan and Sally Ankerfelt www.saintalbertthegreat.org “Parenting for 2516 Central Ave. NE in the Pastor Susan Masters Sunday Worship – 9:45 am Fr. Joe Gillespie, O.P. Water Bar building. Sundays: Sunday School – 9:45 am Sunday Mass: 9:30 am (Childcare available) Peace in the Home” All of these locations meet 9:15 am - Adult Education Child Care Available Saturday Mass: 5 pm accessibility standards. The new 10:30 am - Worship (Wheelchair Accessible) M,T, Th, F: Rosary at 8 am, Daily Mass 8:15 am planned Oct. 3 sites allow more privacy and eas- Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, October 31 - 5:30 - 7:30 pm ier access for voters than the City Trunk & Treat in Parking Lot First Fridays from 9 am to noon Minnehaha Academy and MAPT (Handicapped accessible) (Minnehaha Academy Parents Hall Rotunda used to. Bethlehem Covenant Church Together) will present “8 Pillars Early voters can save time by 3141 43rd Ave. S. • 612-721-5768 St. Peder’s Evangelical Lutheran of Parenting for Peace at Home” taking these three steps www.bethlehemcov.org 4600 E. 42nd St. • 612-722-8000 as part of the 2016-2017 lineup 1. Making sure you’re regis- Rev. Matthew Kennedy www.stpeders.net for “The Scoop Speaker Series.” tered to vote, or preregistering. Children especially welcome Julie A. Ebbesen, Pastor The Scoop Speaker Series Voters can register or check the Sunday Schedule: Sundays: 9 am Worship (childcare available) are parent education events are status of their registrations at Contemporary Worship – 8:45 am Projects of the 9 am Children/Youth Faith Formation free and open to the public. vote.minneapolismn.gov/voters/ Sunday School for All - 10:00 am 10 am Coffee & Fellowship Starting off the series is Sa- register. The last day to prereg- Traditional Worship – 11:00 am Neighborhood 10:20 am Adult Faith Formation mantha Moe, M.A. SLP, and a ister for the general election in Espanol – 1:30 pm (Handicap acc., Braille) Minneapolis is Oct. 18. Wonderful Wednesday Meal – 5:45 pm Churches Include: Certified Parent Coach, who will provide caregivers with a step- 2. Downloading and com- Trinity Lutheran Church pleting the absentee ballot ap- Epworth United Methodist Minnehaha Food Shelf, of Minnehaha Falls by-step approach to dramatically 3207 37th Ave. • 612-722-0232 reduce defiance and disrespect, plication form in advance and 5212 41st Ave. S. • 612-724-3691 www.epworthumcmpls.org Serving People Tuesday, and re-establish confidence and bringing it when voting. Find www.trinityfalls.org Pastor Steven Reiser authority in the home. As found- the request form at vote.minne- 10:30 am - 3 pm Pastors Derek Johnson & Matt Oxendale Sunday Worship: 10:30 am apolismn.gov/voters/absentee. Sunday Worship 8:30 & 10:30 am er of the holistic and innovative (Childcare Provided) 3. Looking at a sample bal- Call us at 612-721-6231 Sunday School 9:20 a.m. Mad2Glad Blueprint, her passion (Wheelchair Accessible) lot ahead of time and even bring- Minnehaha United Methodist • AA Meetings Tuesdays/Sundays 7:00 pm is teaching practical ways to de- crease stress. ing it to refer to when voting. 3701 E. 50th St. If you are feeling stressed Sample ballots are available at out and exhausted, or tired of vote.minneapolismn.gov/voters/ your child’s poor listening skills, ballot. www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com • Messenger • October 2016 Page 13 Dancing into a new life in the U.S.; discovering a passion to dance Dance is great way to meet peo- Tapestry Folkdance Center. the top ridiculous; sometimes found that dance can change “BDS is growing and becom- ple, which can be especially im- BDS brings together Indian and you need that to forget all the se- lives. “Dancing has helped me to ing more than just a dance class. portant when you’re new to a non-Indian dancers in a com- rious happenings in your life.” grow as a person,” said Aravinth We provide opportunities for community and a country. That’s munity dedicated to teaching In- BDS was just what Prachi Vijayakandhan. “I used to be re- people to take leadership roles,” what Prachi Sansare Matkari, dis- dian dance, celebrating cultural needed. “My career was in a kind clusive and shy. Dancing helped says Divya. “Since 2014, we have covered when she moved here diversity and promoting social of reverse mode at that time. I me socialize with others.” mentored and encouraged danc- from India to Minnesota. harmony. It offers drop-in Bolly- was juggling new responsibilities Unlike Prachi, who always ers to teach Thursday classes. “Three years ago, I came to wood-style dance classes for stu- and a new relationship. BDS pro- knew she loved to dance, Ar- Last year we offered a teaching an unknown land with a com- dents of all ages and abilities, as vided a way to unwind and enjoy avinth was a behind-the-scenes workshop training dancers on pletely different culture. I had no well as opportunities to perform. life with a group of new friends. I kind of guy who worked on the how to lead and teach. Today we family other than my husband, Divya Maiya, a founding found my second family!” video production team of BDS. have close to 10 Bollywood cho- and no friends. I found a college member and artistic director She also found a new call- One day he had to join an im- reographers and teachers.” friend in Minneapolis and then for BDS said that “Bollywood is ing. Prachi became part of the promptu dance as part of a You’ll find budding talent I got introduced to Bollywood inspired by many dance forms: choreography team for BDS’s Fringe show. After that, he start- at the Thursday evening dance Dance Scene.” classical and folk Indian dance, Fringe show, “Spicy Masala ed attending the classes and classes, 7 to 8:30pm at Tap- Bollywood Dance Scene street dance, hip-hop, belly Chai.” She now teaches Bolly- discovered he was “totally into estry Folkdance Center, 3748 (BDS) is a non-profit organiza- dance and jazz. It does not con- wood dance at Tapestry. dancing.” He eventually became Minnehaha Ave. S. Go and check tion that makes its home at form to a strict format. It is over She’s not the only one who a dance teacher with the group. them out. Classifieds Want ads must be received by the Messenger by Oct. 17 for the Oct. 27 issue. Call 651-645-7045 for more information. Messenger Your classified ad will also be automatically placed on the Messenger’s website at www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com Messenger Want Ads are $1 per faucet to a new addition. 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Apply online www.dungarvin.com AA/EOE Requisition # 16-0165 www.LongfellowNokomisMessenger.com • Messenger • October 2016 Page 15 Firehouse Performing Arts Center settles into Station 21 By JAN WILLMS owner, club GM and art curator. tive feedback we hear from guests From its inception in 1894 “When I was promoting re- and artists, many who are visiting up until 1958, Hook and Ladder cords, when there was still a re- the venue for the first time,” Moze- Station 21 was housed at 3010 cord industry, our office was also na said. He noted that the center Minnehaha Ave. Today, the former the office that hosted an annual is planning to get a marquee with fire station is again home to Hook conclave of radio station program- some assistance from a Lake St. and Ladder, but this time, it’s a the- mers,” Mozena said. “These were Council grant. “They used to fly a ater and lounge. the people with the key to airways big flag on the roof,” he said. The Firehouse Performing Arts who decided who got played and Although the FPAC is currently Center (FPAC) has taken over the how frequently, and they still do. run by volunteers, with a couple of building, which was Patrick’s Cab- They descend on Minneapolis every independent contractors, there is aret’s location for the past 17 years. mid-July.” a very active board of directors, ac- Chris Mozena, executive director Mozena explained that work- cording to Mozena. He said a cou- of FPAC, said the organization is ing with that group was his first ple of things distinguish Hook and iconic to the building and its his- introduction to the nonprofit arts Ladder Theater and Lounge. toric nature. “We kind of wanted to Minnesota Music legend James Samuel “Cornbread” Harris Sr. performs at world. “That prepared me for Pat- “We are carrying on the tradi- honor that history,” he noted, “and the Hook and Ladder. (Photo submitted) rick’s,” he claimed. “But there I was tion of hosting the Roots, Rock & the predominant footprint of this limited in the scope of stuff that I Deep Blues Festival. That was my nonprofit is the Hook and Ladder tions, along with Hook and Lad- to instructors for dance classes for was allowed to curate. I always had baby, and it has been fun to see it Theater that we operate.” der, are independent, but all exist in performance theater rehearsals,” the desire to cross over, and now I evolve. That work prepared me for At first, planning to operate FPAC, according to Mozena. Mozena said. “A couple of days a have the opportunity.” this too. It is an intense day with under the FPAC name as a perform- Opening in September, the week are dedicated to community The Hook and Ladder Theater five stages, five or six restaurants ing arts center, the feedback was theater has already hosted musical groups, outside organizations and has a new sound system and stage, participating and 30 plus acts, held that if the group was going to have acts and will have its premier the- business associations, whoever has as well as additional licensing for in mid-July.” a bona fide theater in the build- ater performance Oct. 13 when a need to use this space. And there’s beer and wine that will be effective “And I do believe we are prob- ing, it should have its own name. Patrick Scully, the founder of Pat- room in that mix for instructors to in mid-October. ably the only solar-powered theater “That seemed to resonate with the rick’s Cabaret, presents his one-man have classes.” “This is a really old building,” in the area. Our goal with future board of directors and with myself, show on Walt Whitman, called Mozena said that FPAC will be Mozena said, “and we had to bring updates is to eventually have a zero so hence, Hook and Ladder was “Leaves of Grass Illuminated.” following the tradition of Patrick’s it up to code. The easy part was carbon impact.” born,” Mozena explained. “This is a really special per- Cabaret in the sense that both orga- painting the walls.” Mozena said some of the fin- “FPAC also has a couple of formance that has taken over a nizations were about utilizing space “The most challenging part, gerprints of Patrick’s Cabaret, which other studios in the back of the decade in the process of research and transforming it. “The new or- hands down, was the licensing,” he celebrated its 30th anniversary be- building. Upstairs houses a dance and development,” Mozena said. ganization has a slightly more am- stated. “My understanding is they fore leaving this space, can still be company office and our offices, a “Patrick just got back from a run in bitions programming schedule in are updating the protocols and felt in the new theater. “We still kitchenette, restrooms with showers New York City, where he got rave mind,” he added. systems Oct. 3 to be more stream- want to be a home for local art- and one non-arts affiliated organi- reviews. This is a premiere of the Mozena has had his foot in lined, but that doesn’t help us. We ists, from emerging to established zation,” Mozena continued. final finished product and will be both worlds, as he was the music had a great licensing inspector who ones,” he said. “We figure with this He said the original fire station our first theatrical.” director at Patrick’s for the past six helped us along the way, but this reconfiguration and new state of had horse-drawn wagons, so the In the last few weeks, Hook years before stepping into his role turned out to be a larger project the art sound system, we’re going to property that abuts the alley had and Ladder held an open house as executive director of FPAC. “I that took money we hadn’t neces- be a little more flexible and multi- stables for horses. When those were for artists in the neighborhood have over a decade of nonprofit sarily budgeted.” He said the build- use in nature.” torn down, two additional studios and hosted five visual artists for the service that has an entertainment ing owner had made investments in “We’re starting out with baby were built. Today they are occupied LoLa Art Crawl. They also held a bend to it,” he said. He has been an a new sprinkler system and handi- steps,” he continued, “but we are by the Zorongo Flamenco Dance First Responders Chili Cookoff as a independent record promoter and capped renovations. excited about the future here, bring- Theater & School and Jawaahir LoLa after-party. national radio programming con- “At this early juncture, the ing quality entertainment to the Dance Company. Those organiza- “We rent the theater space out ference coordinator, record label most rewarding thing is the posi- community.”

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