St. Anthony Park Park Falcon Heights

Lauderdale

Como Park

Buglewww.parkbugle.org August 2011 Solar-powered businesses LGA cuts Some area ComoComo namesnames fourfour businesses find solar hit hard in power brightens their balance sheets. award-winningaward-winning treestrees Lauderdale

By Sharon Shinomiya City looks at opening Page 3 municipal liquor store, For too long Como Park resident Val Cunningham witnessed what she reducing police services considered too many mature, healthy trees being cut down in her By Kristal Leebrick neighborhood. So in 2010, the avid birder and environmentalist, along When Lauderdale residents gather with other members of District 10’s for the annual city celebration A Day Environment Committee, launched in the Park on Saturday, Aug. 20, the Como Tree Appreciation Awards something will be missing. program. The storied parade that wound This spring the committee through the residential streets of this solicited nominations from area inner ring suburb of 2,364 people residents and in June selected four each August for years has been neighborhood trees to honor. canceled due to budget cuts. The program aims to draw City Council member Mary attention to the outstanding trees in Gaasch’s 7-year-old daughter cried the Como Park neighborhood, to when she heard the news, Gaasch encourage residents to value their said. “She wanted to bring her piggy trees and to inspire them to plant bank to City Hall,” to help with the new trees, especially when an old tree city’s budget crunch. ‘Strong in has been removed due to disease or Eliminating a summertime the Rain’ damage. parade that took staff time to “It’s always depressing to see a organize is a mere nod to the belt- ring appear on a tree and then to see tightening the city has experienced in Japanese poem the city crew show up and a big, old the last four years, as the state cut tree that provided shade and food for local government aid (LGA) to cities. inspires local artist to Between 2008 and 2010, create a book to birds for decades falls to the ground,” Cunningham said. “We lost a big, Lauderdale, with a city budget of benefit tsunami old elm in our own backyard last about $1.13 million—more than victims. year, and it really was a loss. We’ve half of which goes toward public planted a pin oak near the same spot, safety—saw its state aid cut by and it’s so wonderful to watch that $208,524. The state budget recently Page 9 little tree grow, and to anticipate the signed by Gov. Mark Dayton cuts an additional $214,848 from the city’s Beth Eckhardt, Eric Korbach and their children, Evelyn and Henry, Como trees to 6 stand before their award-winning Eastern cottonwood. Photo by Lauderdale to 6 Sharon Shinomiya Voyageur Skies New book chronicles the seasons at Voyageurs National Park, looks at climate change in state’s wilderness

By Judy Woodward s there anything that stirs the blood Iof a true Minnesotan faster than the prospect of a weekend in an idyllic wilderness locale like Voyageurs National Park? Even better, a weekend equipped with a brief but memorable weather event of the sort that confers bragging rights. (The kind that makes one Business News want to wear a T-shirt that says, “I survived the Big Freeze”—or the Big An Irish pub is slated Blow or the Big Heat Wave—take to open in Falcon your pick.) Heights, Park B4 For those without a thrilling Dark hits the streets weekend plan in the works, two and more. longtime area residents have put together the next best thing: Voyageur Page 16 Skies: Weather and the Wilderness in Minnesota’s National Park (Afton

Voyageur Skies to 8 When Don Breneman decided to publish 40 years worth of photographs from Voyageurs National Park, he knew he wanted it to be more than a coffee table book. Photo by Don Breneman 2 PARK BUGLE n AUGUST 2011

CITY FILES

Como Park Step Two is the highest Parks Puppet Wagon Show will about construction along University comments from attendees at the The District 10 Land Use designation to date. For a status perform at 1:45 p.m., and Lazy Does Avenue, call the Central Corridor community meeting on June 22 and Committee is asking for community report on the city of Falcon Heights’ It will perform again at 2:15 p.m. Construction Hotline at 651-602- settle on a revised plan. Items input on a variance request efforts, visit the GreenSteps website, Hamline Auto Body is sponsoring 1404. The appropriate person, addressed at the task force meeting submitted by the Java Train Cafe, greenstep.pca.state.mn.us/cityInfo.cf the music. company or agency to remedy the included parking, road 1341 Pascal St. The restaurant has m?ctu_code=2394738. Due to city budget cuts there problem will be contacted. configuration, bus stops and applied for a beer and wine license The city has also begun to will be no parade this year. (See page assessments. A final community but needs a parking variance before measure the carbon footprint of the 1 of the Park Bugle for more Local Initiatives Support meeting about the proposal will be the application can be considered. entire city and is analyzing the information.) Past parade partici- Corporation (LISC), in coordination held Monday, Aug. 1, from 6:30 to 8 Residents are encouraged to amount of trash collected, number of pants are invited to be involved in the with the cities of St. Paul and p.m. at South St. Anthony attend a meeting on Monday, Aug. vehicle trips within the city, amount event in other ways. Contact City Minneapolis, is holding community Recreation Center, 890 Cromwell. 1, at 7 p.m. at Java Train to be part of of water used and other items. The Hall, 651-792-7650, to see how you forums to discuss a unified housing If you are unable to attend the the discussion. analysis will allow the city to focus can participate in the summer strategy for the Central community meeting but would like For more information, contact sustainability efforts on areas where festival. Corridor. This is an important to provide feedback on the plan, Jessica at 651-644-3889 or improvement can best be measured opportunity for residents, business email your comments to [email protected]. and implemented. For more Lauderdale and the city of Falcon owners and other stakeholders along [email protected] by Monday, Aug. information, contact Justin Miller, Heights have teamed up for the third the corridor to talk about their vision 8. You can also stop by the District 10 is looking to fill a the city administrator, 651-792-7611 annual Falcon Heights/Lauderdale for future housing development. The Community Council office to view subdistrict 3 board position. This or [email protected]. Family 5K Fun Run. See the second forum will be held the wall-sized map of the project plan is a great way to be a voice in your column at left for more information. Wednesday, Aug. 24, from 6 to 8 (please call first to be sure someone is neighborhood and to play a part in The third annual Falcon p.m. at the Wilder Foundation, 450 in the office at 651-649-5992). Visit Heights/Lauderdale Family 5K University Ave. W. Attendance at the www.sapcc.org for more fostering a friendly, active and safe St. Anthony Park community. Fun Run is back this summer. Take first forum is not required to information. All residents and business pleasure in some morning exercise The St. Paul City Council will hold a participate. All are welcome. You can owners residing in subdistrict 3 are and neighborly conversations and public hearing on the draft St. find out more at A group of community members is eligible to serve. Subdistrict 3 is support your local park system on Anthony Park Como 2030 Small http://www.funderscollaborative.org. meeting monthly to implement a bordered by Victoria Avenue on the Saturday, Aug. 13, at 8 a.m. at Area Plan and Zoning Study on Click on Affordable Housing. strategy for a Creative Enterprise west, Dale Street on the east, Community Park, 2050 Roselawn Wednesday, Aug. 3, at 5:30 p.m. at Zone in the Raymond and Larpenteur Avenue on the north and Ave. Race day registration and check- the City Council chambers at City Free recycling bags for renters: University area. The vision is a Maryland Avenue on the south. in will begin at 7 a.m. The fee is $15 Hall, Room 300, 15 W. Kellogg Ramsey County has given the St. livable, mixed-use neighborhood for an individual or $40 for a group Blvd. The study includes all parcels Anthony Park Community recognized and sustained as a center or family of up to four people. within 150 feet of Como Avenue Council recycling bags to give to of creativity and enterprise. If you are Falcon Heights Registration can be done online at between Highway 280 and the residents who cannot use the interested in seeing the plan, go to www.falconheights.org or by calling curbside blue bins. If you would like www.sapcc.org/CEZplan. The city of Falcon Heights is one of University of Minnesota Falcon Heights Parks and Recreation free bags for you or your neighbors, seven Minnesota cities that have transitway. To see the plan, either at 651-792-7617. Stay after the run you can pick them up on Recognizing that creative arts and achieved the designation of Step Two download it at www.sapcc.org or call to enjoy complimentary fruit and Wednesday, Aug. 10, from 4:30 to enterprises are one of the foundations in the Minnesota GreenStep Cities Allan Torstenson, principal city bagels. 5:30 p.m. at 890 Cromwell of Raymond and University area, the project. GreenStep is a voluntary planner, 651-266-6579. Ave. More pickup times will be District 10 Community Council is program that helps cities achieve After seven community forums available in the future. Email working on many fronts to prevent sustainability through implementing sponsored by the Como 2030 Task Lauderdale [email protected] if you are interested. further displacement of these actions that focus on cost savings and Force and District 12 Community businesses. We are surveying local energy-use reduction and encourage Lauderdale’s annual A Day in the Council, recommendations were Would you like to be in on decisions artists and creative enterprises this innovation. Falcon Heights was one Park is Saturday, Aug. 20, from noon given to the city for adoption into the affecting the future of St. Anthony summer to get a more complete of five pilot cities in 2010. Now, 25 to 3 p.m. Food, games and activities city’s Comprehensive Plan. Park? Two seats are available on the picture of the type of innovative cities statewide have joined the begin at noon. Music by Lazy Does It The public is invited to St. Anthony Park Community people and businesses that are program. begins at 12:30 p.m. There will be comment on the draft plan and speakers at 1:15 p.m. The Roseville zoning study at the public hearing or Council Board. Call Amy at 651- working and living here. If you are an submit written comments to Office 649-5992 or go to www.sapcc.org to artist or work in a creative business, of the City Council, 310 City learn more. we want to hear from you to help us Hall, 15 Kellogg Blvd. W. St. Paul, support our neighborhood’s MN 55102. The Raymond Avenue Traffic development. Find the survey Calming Task Force, along with at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ FREE If you have complaints or concerns community members, met to review C98MXCH. Open for Breakfast Regular 6” Sub with purchase of a 6” sub of equal or greater value & a 21 oz. soft drink One coupon per customer per visit. Not valid with any other offer or on Premium or Double Stacked Subs. Expires 9/15/11 Area residents quiet as new Good only at: 2121 University Ave. W, St. Paul (University & Transfer) 651-646-3096 Sholom Home project progresses Buyers to build an assisted-living complex with memory-care units

By Harvey T. Rockwood

Neighborhood concerns about plans The building, a familiar one to care, while the other units will be for a 170-unit assisted-living complex State Fair-goers who pass it en route, devoted to assisted-living services, on the site of the former Sholom was purchased in June by Traditions Knox said. Home East in St. Paul appear to be LLP Land LCC. Issuance of a demolition permit abating. At one time a drug from the city is likely the next and Fewer than a half-dozen rehabilitation facility was proposed possibly final hurdle to beginning residents showed up for a July 19 for the site. Fears of parking problems work on the project, Knox said. community discussion at the have also been addressed, Knox said. Work could begin within a month Historic Streetcar Station, which was The building, which offers and a half, he said. sponsored by the District 10 Como about 118,000 square feet of space in The city Planning Commission Community Council. This, after all, had been unused for more than a approved a conditional-use permit in neighborhood notices were placed year, he said. July. You can find out more at for three blocks in each direction The Sholom Alliance sold the www.district10comopark.org or by from the site at 1554 Midway Sholom East site building on June 6 calling the District 10 Community Parkway, said John Knox, chairman to Traditions SP Land, LLC, which Council Office, 651-644-3889. of the community council. plans to establish a 170-unit senior “I really think [the buyers] did a housing facility at the location. Harvey Rockwood is a Twin Cities free- good job of keeping people About 19 units will provide lance writer. informed,” Knox said. specialized memory and dementia AUGUST 2011 n PARK BUGLE 3

Commercial solar brightens businesses’ balance sheets Incentives shorten payback time for expensive investments Insured Lic: 20638329 Matt 612-840-4511 By Anne Holzman

A combination of tax incentives, While the new equipment hasn’t The city’s emerging solar grants and plain old market demand taken them off the electrical grid, program includes a heating system at is turning solar power into a good Wellington has seen savings on utility the new Como pool, which will open business investment and offering bills in the year since installation, said in 2012, and a roof panel soon to be another opportunity to “buy local.” project manager Dave Bergstrom. installed at South St. Anthony Although purchase and Those savings would take a long Recreation Center. installation of photovoltaic panels is time to cover the cost of installation The new electric car–charging still too expensive for most businesses if it weren’t for state and federal tax station to be installed in the south to swallow, Xcel Energy has been incentives, which reduce the payback parking lot at Como Lakeside offering a rebate, Minnesota Pavilion will also be solar- has offered a tax credit, powered. municipalities offer their own The city of St. Paul’s emerging solar program “We’re trying to incentives, and at least one includes a heating system at the new Como demonstrate on our local solar-installation pool and a roof panel soon to be installed at public buildings the great company says in some South St. Anthony Recreation Center. potential of solar,” Hunt circumstances it will trade said. FOR SALE 1410 Chelmsford St. services for advertising. The South St. As the city of St. Paul rolls out period from perhaps 20 years down Anthony Recreation Center project $319,900 demonstration projects in the next to “five to eight years,” Bergstrom will be paid for by federal stimulus 3 light bedrooms, 1 bath, office and den few months, a St. Anthony Park said. funds allocated by the state to Best location in the Park! Move in condition! business has already decked its roofs The incentives—many of them develop the Central Corridor area, with photovoltaic panels and begun still relying on federal economic- Hunt said, and Xcel’s $2.25-per-watt Buyers’ agents welcome. reaping the savings on utility bills. stimulus funds—are designed to rebate covered almost half of the Wellington Management has bring demand to the point where $35,000 cost. installed the panels on four solar power becomes a sensible The St. Paul Planning commercial buildings, including its investment, according to Anne Commission has been reviewing the offices on Energy Park Drive just Hunt, St. Paul mayor’s office city’s zoning specifications for their west of Snelling Avenue and recently environmental policy director. She effect on solar installations and will bought a largely solar-powered thinks that time is near. likely recommend changes to the building, the Green Institute’s former “The price of solar is coming headquarters in Minneapolis. down,” Hunt said. Commercial solar to 10

Elizabeth Wilson or Ross Jackson National Children’s Study 651-964-4984 or [email protected] recruiting new mothers

By Judy Woodward

Mothers-to-be, if you live in the Park children’s growth and development of the fetal environment affect adult Bugle readership area (St. Anthony will be tracked in many different risk for disease?” Someday, Park, Como Park, Lauderdale or ways. Hellerstedt may draw on the study to Falcon Heights), are pregnant or may Nationally, the NCS plans to determine the relationship between In become pregnant in the near future, enroll more than 100,000 children in occupational and psychological researchers at the University of a decades-long examination of the stressors in pregnant women and late summer, Minnesota want to talk to you. interactions between children’s health health outcomes for their children in The team at the U is part of a and their family and neighborhood later life, but for now, she says, “We’re national task force that is recruiting environments. collecting basic, but critical, data.” we’re at participants for what will be the Eventually, data from the study What are the benefits to signing largest and most extensive study of may be used to untangle medical up for the study? The modest children’s health and development mysteries ranging from asthma to payments being offered to our peak. ever undertaken in the United States. attention deficit disorder to the participants should not be considered The National Children’s Study relationship between environmental the main incentive, Hellerstedt says. From North Star Gardens’ fruits to (NCS) will establish a database factors such as air and water quality “People need to know that they’re Footjoy Farm’s heirloom vegetables, late containing a statistically and children’s susceptibility to certain making a contribution. The study summer’s bounty reaches full bloom on representative sample of families health problems. The range of has the potential to make life better Chef Jason Schellin’s from all over the nation. Families are potential areas of study is enormous for future generations,” she notes, but daily-printed menu. being sought from more than 100 and limited only by the researchers’ not unless it can attract participating counties nationwide, including 16 individual academic interests. The families. She would like to tell neighborhoods in Ramsey County. University of Minnesota team potential participants, “We need Children who take part in the includes experts in fields as diverse as you.” study will be followed from their maternal postpartum health, health- There is no question that prenatal days until their 21st plan design and environmental-risk longitudinal studies like the NCS can birthdays—and perhaps beyond—in assessment. be of inestimable benefit to research. what scientists hope will be a Como Park resident Wendy The University of Minnesota is In Milton Square landmark study of factors affecting Hellerstedt, associate professor of famous for another longitudinal 2260 Como Avenue West children’s health and development. epidemiology and community health research project, the Minnesota Twin St. Paul, MN Families will be asked to fill out and a co-investigator of the study, Family Study, which has been Reservations 651-644-9116 questionnaires; blood and urine says her interest is reproductive Learn more at muffuletta.com samples may be collected; and the epidemiology: “How does the quality Children’s study to 10 4 PARK BUGLE n AUGUST 2011

Park EDITORIAL

Buglewww.parkbugle.org First the good news, then the bad news Mailing Address P.O. Box 8126 St. Paul, MN 55108 It’s been one hot, turbulent summer—and we’re not just talking about the making up a good share of the difference: projected to rise to 33.1 percent of www.parkbugle.org tornadoes, floods and record-setting dew points. Most of the summer has our tax burden in 2013, up from 30.1 percent in 2006. 651-214-6526 been taken up with the state budget debate, and for those of us in the Central Corridor area, road construction. And then we have the Minnesota Twins. The bad: Editor Here is our take on the good, the bad and the ugly of summer 2011. Close to home, the Legislature’s decision to cut local government aid is hitting Kristal Leebrick the city of Lauderdale particularly hard. The city is asking its residents to 651-214-6526 The good: attend a public meeting Thursday, Aug. 24, to address ideas to increase [email protected] Minnesota state employees are back to work and our rest areas and parks are revenue and cut the budget. (See story on page 1.) The city of about 2,300 open again! has a very small industrial and commercial tax base. This means it is hard for Obituaries Editor the city to raise enough property tax income to pay for city services, many of Mary Mergenthal The bad: which are mandated by the state. Lauderdale is considering opening a 651-644-1650 The state lost millions of dollars in the 20-day shutdown, including lost municipal liquor store to raise revenue and reducing its contracted police [email protected] revenue from lottery sales, tax audits and state park fees. The full cost isn’t services. expected to be known for some time. Production Manager The bad, the ugly and more: Stephen D. Parker The good: Once again the Legislature has kicked the education budget can down the 651-489-0993 The University of Minnesota will receive $545.3 million, about $50 million road. The central provision of the state’s $13.6 billion K–12 education budget Copy Editor more than it was to get under the bill passed during the regular legislative bill is a $700 million delay in state aid payments for schools. That means, once Ruth Weleczki session. again, school districts will need to borrow money to meet their obligations. And borrowed money comes with interest payments. The beneficiaries? The Proofreader The bad: institutions that give out loans. Christine Elsing That puts state support of this land-grant university back to 1998 funding The state did add $50 for every student to help offset those interest levels, according to University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler, who took payments that the banks will be charging the schools, but 40 percent of that Delivery office July 1. new money will be delayed as well. Last year, 30 percent of state payments to 651-214-6526 the public schools was put on hold. The bad: Billing MnSCU—the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System comprising The bad: Nauen Mobile Accounting 31 state-supported technical colleges, community colleges and state Matt Capps. 651-696-8913 universities—is in line to receive $545.4 million a year for the next biennium, a cut of $120 million. It is the fourth straight year of budget cuts for MnSCU, The good: Calendar Submissions whose appropriation will be lower than the one received in 1999. Since then, Joe Nathan. [email protected] the number of students served by the system has risen by nearly 51,000. Again, the bad: Display Advertising The ugly: Light-rail construction along University Avenue is not going away anytime Christine Ames What we just said. soon, but we still need to complain about it. The traffic is aggravating. The 651-208-5540 [email protected] clogged road and lack of clear signage are deterrents enough to turn many of The good or the bad and the ugly: us away from the area, and that is hurting the businesses. If there is a business Genevieve Plagens Republicans in the Legislature succeeded in blocking Gov. Mark Dayton you cherish along the Central Corridor, it’s now or never. Support them. 651-325-7189 from raising income taxes on the top earners in the state. Whether you deem Now. [email protected] that good or bad depends on your frame of reference—and your income. Now we can expect to see a rise in local property taxes in response to state The good: Classified Advertising and Subscriptions spending cuts. We end our list on a high note. Fariba Sanikhatam Those living on fixed incomes are hit especially hard by property tax Fireflies, or lightning bugs (as some of us who grew up in other parts of 651-646-5369 hikes, yet it appears Minnesota is continuing a trend of shifting the tax burden the country call them), have been seen twinkling in our backyards in the last [email protected] from income tax to the property tax. An article on MinnPost.com last year month, something many Twin Cities dwellers haven’t experienced in years. citing the Minnesota Department of Revenue noted that the income tax is We see the return of these luminescent beetles as a harbinger of better The ad deadline for the projected to make up 35 percent of all state and local taxes we will pay in days to come. next issue is Aug. 10. 2013, down from 37.4 percent in 2006. Meanwhile, property taxes are The Park Bugle is a nonprofit community newspaper serving St. Anthony Park, Lauderdale, Falcon LETTERS Heights and Como Park. The GOAL Bugle reports and analyzes Take my lawnmower or rescind community news and promotes Thank you for supporting $35,000 the exchange of ideas and the tax cut I bought it with opinions in these communities. the Park Bugle The Bugle strives to promote Ten years ago, Governor Ventura $30,819.30 freedom of expression, enhance pushed for a tax cut because $30,000 the quality of life in the readership Minnesota had a budget surplus. I The following Bugle readers contributed to the Bugle find drive communities and encourage received a refund of $400 and in the last month. We’re not far from our goal of $35,000. You community participation. bought a new lawnmower. That was can still donate online at www.parkbugle.org. Click DONATE Opinions expressed in the the last we heard about state surpluses $25,000 Bugle by the editor, writers and NOW. Or send a check to Park Bugle, P.O. Box 8126, St. Paul, contributors do not necessarily and we have been cutting school MN 55108. represent the opinions of the budgets, health care and our board of directors, Park Press, Inc. infrastructure ever since. While I $20,000 Copyright 2011, Park Press, Inc. liked my new lawnmower, I now All rights reserved. regret the tax cuts and plan to return The Park Bugle is published the lawnmower to the State Dorothee Aeppli Bill and Nancy Lorimer $15,000 by Park Press, Inc., a 501(c)3 Legislature. Maybe they could sell it Wendell and Marjorie De Boer Betty Lotterman nonprofit organization guided by at a garage sale to help with the an elected board of directors. budget deficit. Mari Espeland and Ken Dahlberg Maxine O. Sather Currently serving on the If the Legislature can’t use the Suzanne Fantle Dorothy Stach $10,000 board are Lynn Abrahamsen, lawnmower, I’m asking them to Emily Blodgett, Audrey Estebo, Gustafson Jewelers Frank and Shirley Ungar Ann Fendorf, Nate Flink, Mark rescind the tax cuts I have received Frances Homans and Allan Torstenson Dorothy Waltz over the years. Johanson, Paul Kammueller, Jill Gretchen Kreuter Kottke, Karen Lilley, Nancy $5,000 Olsen, Thue Rasmussen, Jan Rob Ramer Sedgewick, Todd Shannon, Blaine Merriam Park Thrasher and Eric Wieffering. AUGUST 2011 n PARK BUGLE 5

Celebrate Community Garden Day 651-642-1838

The St. Anthony Park Community Gardening Matters, a nonprofit Paul, will have gardeners available Gardens will celebrate Community group dedicated to sustainable from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Garden Day Saturday, Aug. 6, with community gardening and live music, a tomato tasting and a pie neighborhood-based urban • Peace Garden, 1744 Walnut St., potluck from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the agriculture, has an online map of Lauderdale, will celebrate from 10 gardens, located at Robbins Street participating gardens and a.m. to 2 p.m. with music, a Call for a free estimate and Raymond Avenue in south St. information about activities at each storyteller, food preservation Anthony Park. site that day. Contact information for demonstrations and more. Coat Pocket Whiskey, a local individual gardens is posted with folk and bluegrass band, will each garden’s map entry. Go to • The U of M Cornercopia Student perform. Finnish Bistro will donate www.gardeningmatters.org to see the Organic Farm, west of Dudley desserts for the event. map. Avenue at Field Road N, Falcon The St. Anthony Park Other area gardens hosting Heights, will have student interns Community Gardens are one of celebrations that day include: sharing produce samples and food- LIZ PIERCE & LIZ RICHARDS ATTORNEYS AT LAW more than 40 community gardens production information from 10 Divorce, Wills/Probate, hosting events to celebrate • Eleanor Graham Community a.m. to 2 p.m. Mediation for Peaceful Resolution of Conflicts Community Garden Day. Garden, 1335 Ashland Ave., St. [email protected] www.lizpierce.com IN MILTON SQUARE / SAINT PAUL / 651-645-1055

Fringe returns to Gremlin Theatre The Minnesota Fringe will return to 10-ticket pass is $100. • “Recovery,” by Michael Loretta

the Gremlin Theatre, 2400 Each of the shows scheduled at Productions Be Well As You Age University Ave., Aug. 4–14, with 11 the Gremlin will be performed a • “Change Your Underwear, Change Seminars featuring film and discussion on aging issues 2nd Saturday morning of each plays and four to seven performances number of times throughout the Your Life,” by Swell Gal Shows month at the St. Anthony Branch Park Library, 2245 Como Avenue. each day. The Gremlin is the only St. festival. Go to the Fringe website, • “Four Clowns,” by 4 Clowns August 12 Paul venue in this year’s festival. www.fringefestival.org/2011, to find • “Nightmare Man,” by Studio 10:30 - Noon The Minnesota Fringe is a out more. Click on “locations” to Alethea Productions Speaker: Jane Hagstrom, Minneapolis-based nonprofit find out the schedule for a specific • “Green Eyes,” by Anna Sundberg Hospice of the Twin Cities organization that hosts an 11-day venue. and Matt Rein Topic: All the Facets of theater festival each August. The Gremlin theater-goers can use • “Primordial Dreams,” by Gayatri The Original Living-At-Home Block Nurse Program Hospice Fringe does not judge, jury or censor the parking lot behind U.S. Bank, • “The Silent Room: A Worker’s 651-642-9052 the work that’s performed during the across the street and kitty-corner Musical,” by New Proletkult festival. Applicants are selected by from the theater. • “Word. The Urban Musical,” lottery. The Fringe opens at the by Pirtlean Entertainment All plays are no more than 60 Gremlin at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. • “YARRH! The Lusty, Busty Pirate minutes long and can range from 4, with “The Duties and Musical,” by Fortune’s Fool Theatre comedy to drama to spoken word to Responsibilities of Being a Sidekick,” • “Box and Quotations from dance. After purchasing a $4 by the Barkada Theater Project. Chairman Mao Tse-Tung,” by admission button, single adult tickets Other shows scheduled for the TheGonzoGroupTheatre are $12. A five-ticket pass is $50; a Gremlin include:

Cut home energy costs this summer

There are a number of ways you can • Switch to warm or cold water in heat. Placing it away from the stove, keep your energy bill low during the the wash. Water heating consumes dishwasher or heat vents allows it to hot summer months, according to approximately 90 percent of the total stay cooler. Always make sure your Megan Swenson of Warners’ Stellian energy it takes to operate your clothes fridge is sealed airtight; keeping it appliance stores. Swenson lists these washer. Cut your energy use in half stocked also cuts down on energy energy-saving tips: by switching from hot to warm; use. washing with cold water reduces it • Use your oven wisely. Microwaves • Stop rinsing dishes. Rinsing dishes even more. use half as much electricity as regular before putting them in the • Use the “right-sized” cooking pot. ovens. Save even more by defrosting dishwasher wastes up to 20 gallons of By using pots that completely cover frozen food in the refrigerator, instead water. your stove burners, your kitchen will of the microwave. • Use fewer dishes. Cook and serve stay cooler and your food cooks • Buy Energy Star appliances, which in the same dish. You’ll use your faster. use 10 to 50 percent less energy. dishwasher less often. • Move your refrigerator away from Christmas in August! This is Peace Lutheran's annual event in which we renovate and upgrade homes in Lauderdale for people who need help. We provide the labor and in most cases the materials or a good portion toward them. In the past, we've received 7TH funding through Thrivent Financial as well as contributions from local Annual Event businesses and individuals. August Possible projects include: painting, carpentry, roofing, fence repair, landscaping. 19th & 20th To donate and/or volunteer for some time on the weekend, or if you or someone you know is in need of such renovations, please call Jeff Nelson 651-633-2458.

Thanks to the community for making this annual event such a success! PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 6 PARK BUGLE n AUGUST 2011

Como trees from 1 For or Sale shade and cooling it will provide, the bought their home at 1340 E. Como The majestic white pine that Lease hundreds of insects it will support, Blvd. six years ago. The massive stands near the property line in Jerod and thus, the birds it will sustain as Eastern cottonwood in a beautifully and Jen Klava’s front yard at 1565 1399 Eustis Avenue, Highway 280 & Como Avenue they eat the insects.” landscaped back yard was a positive Chelsea St. played an indirect role in 15,360 sq feet Homeowners may not think of selling point for them. Its base bringing them together with their , meeting hall; 65 car parking lot the many benefits of residential trees measures a whopping 16 feet around. new next-door neighbors after they Office or educational facility while they rake up leaves and seed It is likely the tree was growing there moved in six years ago. Jerod Klava Eric Batiza, Welsh Co., pods, clear needles from gutters or before the house was built in 1938. summoned them for help when the 952.837.3007, [email protected] write a check for an expensive trim or During a storm four years ago, the ladder he was using to clear pine cleanup after a storm. Yet trees serve couple lost nearly a quarter of the old needles from his gutters fell away. us in a myriad of ways. cottonwood. It remains attractive to The tree was nominated by Susan Trees clean the air by absorbing the neighborhood bald eagle that Jane Cheney, who admires this
   pollution and trapping particulates frequents nearby Lake Como and uncommon residential tree as she
  

  
   and help reduce stormwater runoff settles in the tree to eat its catch, passes by on her walks.       and erosion; they release oxygen and leaving fish scraps and muskrat tails The fourth award-winning tree
   reduce noise and glare; and they for the couple to clean up below. The was nominated by Cunningham.    provide shade on a hot, sunny day tree was nominated by Rick Thomas, The tree, a towering spruce, is an and create privacy in people’s yards. who has been watching the tree grow anchor for the neighborhood and   

 The environmental and since he was a youth. wildlife, Cunningham said, and she   aesthetic benefits of trees are an Dawn Lamm and Bill and finds it reassuring to look out and see       average of three times greater than Adelle Niebur admire the mature it standing there. Neighbors have tree-care costs, according to research Northern catalpa in their neighbors’ watched the little spruce at 1362   
 conducted by the Minneapolis Park front yard. In their nomination of McKinley St. grow since it was and Recreation Board, the that tree, they said it “shouts a planted long ago as a 25th wedding Minnesota Department of Natural northern spring” to them as it “spirals anniversary gift to previous Resources, Tree Trust and Minnesota to the sky with its large orchid-type homeowners from their children. EMIL GUSTAFSON JEWELERS Tree Care Advisors. blossoms” and sweet scent. The tree Ruth Myers has owned the house DISTINCTIVE JEWELRY AND DESIGN SINCE 1911 Trees can help reduce home- belongs to Rosa and Warren Poole, and huge tree for 12 years. cooling costs and serve as windbreaks who have lived in the 1904 Cunningham hopes these to help reduce winter heating costs. farmhouse at 795 W. Arlington Ave. awards will increase people’s OUR SERVICES INCLUDE They also increase property values. for 27 years. The tree, which was awareness and respect of their trees DESIGN F RESTYLING F RESTORATION F REPAIR One of this year’s award- there when they moved in, is one of and inspire them to plant more trees. SUZANNE FANTLE F OWNER winning trees belongs to Eric many mature trees on the broad 2278 COMO 651-645-6774 Korbach and Beth Eckhardt, who sloped lawn leading up to the house. Sharon Shinomiya lives in Como Park. T-F 10-6, SAT 10-5 Lauderdale from 1

2011 and 2012 budgets. communities have the right to basic (at a cost of $605,278 per year) and Wills v Real Estate v Probate v Divorce v Litigation v Starting, Selling or Buying a Business “I’m gravely concerned about services such as police and fire the Falcon Heights Volunteer Fire the cuts to LGA and the future of protection, libraries, parks and Department ($32,500 per year). small cities and big cities in recreation programs and safe roads. And the only option for revenue FERDINAND F. P ETERS, ESQUIRE LAW FIRM Minnesota,” Gaasch said. If the city Cities pay for these services through generation is the municipal liquor does not find a way to raise revenue, a combination of property-tax store, she said. “I myself don’t drink. she said, “Lauderdale will not be able revenue and state LGA payments. I never imagined I’d be in the FERDINAND F. P ETERS v BENJAMIN LOETSCHER to survive.” The state distributes LGA to cities position to say let’s try this out.” The Lauderdale City Council is based on a formula that identifies a Bringing a municipally run business 651-647-6250 asking residents to attend an Aug. 24 city’s ability to raise revenues. Cities to the Larpenteur and Eustis area meeting to give feedback on some with higher property wealth, like could bring other business to the cost-cutting and revenue-generating Roseville and the city of St. Anthony, area, Gaasch said. actions that include opening a do not receive LGA. Municipalities She knows that some residents municipal liquor store, reducing the with little industrial or commercial on Larpenteur Avenue are concerned number of hours of police patrol property, like Lauderdale, can’t cover about development along that street, services or consolidating with the costs of public services through “but it’s been zoned [for that type of Come Home to St. Paul another city—an option “almost too property tax revenues alone. LGA development] for many years.” The horrible to contemplate,” Gaasch helps cover those costs. positive aspect of having a municipal said. The meeting will begin at 6:30 The city of Lauderdale liquor store is the city can control and p.m. at Lauderdale City Hall, 1891 budgeted for potential 2011 and influence the kind of business that Walnut St. 2012 cuts through spending cuts and develops there, Gaasch said. “I was shocked to see that one of staff wage freezes. Yet, in 2012, even Concerns that a liquor store the options is consolidation,” said if the city eliminated all non- would bring more crime to the area State Rep. Mindy Greiling, whose mandated services, such as city aren’t warranted, Gaasch said. district includes Lauderdale, Roseville events, staffing at the ice rink St. Anthony Police Chief John and the city of St. Anthony. “That warming house, park and recreation Ohl said that crime is not an issue, tells me how very serious it is. They programming, the city newsletter she said. “Bars are a problem, not only have one police officer. They and one of its five city staff members, liquor stores.” really have nothing left to cut. My a significant budget gap would “Not one of the fixes would other two cities, St. Anthony village remain. solve the entire problem,” Gaasch and Roseville, are flusher and bigger “We can raise our levy, but we said. “If we had some combination and don’t even get LGA, and now can’t raise it enough to cover all the of the three, maybe we could become Lauderdale is squeaking by. different potential costs,” said financially independent.” 1662 Lafond could be your cottage in the city. “There needs to be a fair way to Gaasch. “If we had no LGA at all and Greiling would like to see Only 10 minutes from each downtown and give police and fire services and tried to raise the levy we could never reform in the LGA program. “Some just blocks from the new light rail. The front maintain roads for people in all raise it enough to provide the services cities are getting more than what they porch with French-style windows makes a towns without having the people that the state mandates.” need and some aren’t getting enough. great summer living room. living there absorb it all with property Those mandates, which include If it’s more fairly distributed you’d get $155,000. taxes,” Greiling said. “I am a strong stormwater management and more support for it, but to get rid of believer in local government aid.” election administration, take up an it all together is criminal and very, LGA began as a property estimated 50 percent of staff time. very unfair,” she said. Nancy Meeden tax–relief program in the 1971 “Cutting staffing is not always “We are a rich enough state to Coldwell Banker Burnet “Minnesota Miracle,” a series of an option,” Gaasch said. “The only be able to afford LGA for those who Office: 651-282-9650 legislative reforms that changed the way to cut costs is to cut police need it. The governor really fought Mobile: 612-790-5053 way state government was financed. services.” Public safety is the largest hard to have it not cut more than it It was established to provide chunk of the city’s budget: 56.4 was. It could have been a lot worse. [email protected] fairness in property taxation across percent or $637,787. Lauderdale For some cities this is small potato the state. 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She just went farther up Again, we saw an adult come in, saw OPEN gather data about the tree and its the road to another potential site. it enter a nest hole and repeated our APRIL 1ST. surrounding habitat and see if there The site Bonnie and I headed documentation process. We were were other nest sites nearby. toward was about 500 feet away really getting good at this. Cedar Creek is in the Anoka through waist-high brush. Then it was back south to the Sand Plain. The access roads and There were a number of southern edge of our territory where trails are all sand, so getting close to potential nest trees in the clearing, so three black circles awaited us. With a the marked areas wasn’t much of a we watched and waited to see the bit of patient watching (actually challenge. Getting near a nest tree bird return, hoping to see which tree hearing the peeping of some nestlings itself, however, was a different matter. it visited before it left again. waiting for Mom or Dad to return Redheaded woodpeckers seem Was the adult carrying food on with some breakfast), we successfully to prefer nesting in oak savannahs: the way in? Did it crawl into a nest marked the remaining three nest groups of trees in the midst of shorter hole or even just stick its head in? If trees, although we had run out of undergrowth, witch hazel bushes, not, maybe it’s another tree; can we purple ribbon, so we’ll have to rely on We Also Sell: • Decorative Landscape Mulches • Decorative Landscape Rock willows, poison ivy and the like. find a potential nest hole in any one Bonnie’s photos next time. • Soil Ammendments (compost) • Top Soil & Sand We Accept: • Brush • Yard Waste • Stumps • Sod & Soil Navigating this undergrowth is of those trees? Our score: six for six. 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Bonnie calls them ankle- purple ribbon around the tree trunk breakers. Those branches and limbs to enable easier spotting next time have been charred by prescribed we’re there. You’re invited to a controlled burns, so you’ll get Bonnie recorded more data, charcoal streaks on your pants at including the tree species, tree status least. All in all, there’s a lot of (living, some percent dead, totally stumbling around on my part. dead snag), tree height, cavity height, Redheaded woodpeckers are the direction it faced and description cavity nesters. They seem to favor of the understory. And finally, she half-dead oak trees or totally dead took a photo of the tree. standing snags. The nest hole can be We labored back to the road and anywhere from 8 to 80 feet up in a caught up with Val. She had seen a with local authors Don Breneman and Mark Seeley! tree that usually has short understory redheaded woodpecker come in, but growth beneath it. This may be so it was unclear which tree it was Tai Chi Chuan Health & Self-Defense Taught by Phyllis Calph Certified Instructor – Local Authors Don Breneman and Mark Seeley will be at Park Midway Bank on the Doc-Fai Wong evening of August 18, 2011 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm to tell stories and present images Martial Arts, from their new book Voyageur Skies: Weather and the Wilderness in Minnesota’s San Francisco National Park (Afton Press). Micawber’s bookstore will sell signed copies of the book that night. Sponsored by Park Midway Bank and Micawbers Books. For more information about this book visit: www.aftonpress.com. Refreshments will be served.

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For longer than that, he’s been an enthusiastic observer of the changing face of the wilderness area that was designated in 1975 as Voyageurs National Park. Growing up, he spent most weekends at a Evening sun illumines this orange lichen-covered rock island. Photo by Don Breneman cabin he and his parents built near Kabetogama Lake. As an adult, he spent countless hours photographing days before he was able to reach a weather. “Because Voyageurs Park the landscape and wildlife of the park telephone to let his family know he must be enjoyed from the water and at all times of the year. was safe. because the waterways are so When Breneman decided to Seeley’s choice of a favorite day expansive, it’s extremely important to publish a selection of 40 years worth betrays a more temperate approach. be aware of the weather,” Seeley says. of photography, “I decided to “About two years ago in October, I Breneman recalls once seeing a organize the pictures by season, but I was up in the park with the Weather funnel cloud pass overhead while he wanted it to be more than just a Service. You couldn’t roll the dice and was out in a boat. Fortunately, the coffee table book,” he says. come up with a better day. It was like tornado didn’t touch ground until it Breneman needed a this,” he says, as he points to one of reached the other side of the lake, collaborator, and he knew just who Mark Seeley Don Breneman Breneman’s pictures from the book. but, says Breneman, “It happened so to ask. He and University of A panoramic photo of the shoreline fast that we didn’t have time to Minnesota climatologist and St. more precipitation and higher you ask people about a wedding or of Sphunge Island on Kabetogama think.” Anthony Park resident Mark Seeley humidity now. We’ll see how the Grandma’s funeral, sooner or later Lake, the image catches a blaze of red With the advent of sophisticated have known each other since the days biological consequences in terms of they’ll describe the weather.” and yellow foliage mirrored in the weather-tracking equipment, when the Breneman family lived on insects and wildlife will play out.” Seeley recalls an episode in April still waters of the lake. battery-operated weather radios and Chilcombe Avenue and “our Already, he notes, algae forms earlier 1982, where in the space of 24 hours, As a professional climatologist, smart phones that work even in the children played ball together.” Seeley, in lake water in summer and there’s there was a tornado watch followed Seeley’s description of an ideal day in wilderness areas of northern who is well-known to Minnesota been a drop in the moose population, by a severe thunderstorm warning, Voyageurs tends to be a touch Minnesota, it’s harder now to be audiences from his weather “which may have a climate and the temperature fell from a quantitative. “A perfect day,” he says, caught unprepared by a storm. But commentary on Minnesota Public connection if there’s a pathogen balmy 71 to 7 degrees. “You can’t “has about 30 percent relative what exactly should one do if you’re Radio, makes the science go down involved [that] survives because dress for weather like that,” Seeley humidity, 75 degrees with light outside and a tornado threatens? easy with explanations of the winters are becoming milder.” says. winds. But, for me, a perfect day is “Get off the lake,” admonishes meteorological phenomena Nature photos and climate talk When asked to recall a historic cloudy. Chaotic sky with six different Breneman. “Find the lee side of an illustrated by Breneman’s sumptuous may seem like a natural pairing, but weather event that he would like to cloud forms is perfect. A pure blue island, get behind a big rock.” But photos. Seeley also gives an that’s partly because the subject is have witnessed, Breneman answers sky is boring.” don’t seek the shelter of a tall tree. introduction to the park’s climate, Minnesota, where talk of the weather promptly, “My dad went through the Breneman’s version of perfection “Lightning is probably the biggest which offers enough weather dominates the conversation to an Armistice Day Blizzard [on betrays his photographer’s eye: “Early danger,” he points out. extremes, violent storms and rapid extent unknown in other regions. November 11, 1940] on spring when the ice is just going out. And that brings up one other temperature changes to delight any “Minnesota is a weather paradise,” Kabetogama Lake.” The senior The light is bright and there’s a unrelated but irresistible question. weather-watcher. says Seeley, who grew up in the Breneman had been duck hunting proliferation of birds.” Then, he adds When they’re back home and the “Voyageurs is the only place in relatively mild, unchanging climate and, although he made it safely back a practical afterthought. “I also like tornado sirens blow, do men as the state,” he says, “where it can be of Northern California. “It has to the cabin, “the next morning the late summer, because the fly and fascinated by the play of weather on 106 degrees in the summer and 52 everything Mother Nature can entire bay was frozen.” Unable to use mosquito population is down.” the landscape as Breneman and below in the winter.” deliver. Our culture [in Minnesota] his boat to get back to civilization, he Part of the thrill of being in the Seeley really seek shelter? Or can Ask the two if the landscape of has been shaped by the weather. If had to walk out. It took him two wilderness is the possibility of severe Breneman be found outside with his camera, seeking the perfect shot? And is Seeley staring upward into the skies, noting with satisfaction the 1786 Maple Court, Falcon Heights classic wall-cloud formation? f The answer to the first question ¢ oofff $196,900 is yes, they seek shelter. 55¢ “We have a family room with a TV in our basement. 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• Interior & Exterior Painting • Wallpapering & Paper Stripping • Wood Stripping & Refinishing Neighbors • Plaster/Sheetrock Repair • Ceiling Texturing/Repair • Wood Floor Sanding & Refinishing 651-699-6140 or WWW.PAINTINGBYJERRYWIND.COM Murray 45th class reunion The Murray High School Class of 1966 will hold its 45th class reunion on Saturday, Aug. 13, at 7 p.m. at SOURCE COMICS & GAMES Patrick McGovern’s Pub, 225 W. 7th 1601 West Larpenteur Avenue St., St. Paul. Judi Sontag is taking (NW Corner of Snelling & Larpenteur) reservations and money. For further Falcon Heights information, call Joy at 651-644- 8833. 651-645-0386 www.sourcecandg.com Two Emmas win July 4 Fun Run Open 10:00am to 9:00pm Mon-Sat & Two women who share the same first Noon - 6:00 pm Sunday! name were the top runners at the Fourth in the Park’s 2-mile and 4- mile Fun Run July 4 in St. Anthony Park, besting both the women’s and men’s categories. Emma Lucken was the top runner in the 2-mile category with a time of 12:41. Emma Lee was the overall winner of the 4-mile run with a time of 22:29. The top men’s finishers were Fred Holmly in the 2- mile with a time of 13:08 and Allen Broderius in the 4-mile with a time of 23:34. JOTP scores soccer grant Joy of the People has been awarded a U.S. Soccer Foundation planning grant that includes the services of CHA Sports, the foundation’s partner for soccer- facility design and planning services. One of six recipients of the foundation’s planning grants, JOTP will receive concept plans for its soccer-field And the band plays on construction projects, bringing it Band director Paul Husby and the St. Anthony Park Community closer to its vision of having a multi- Band perform at Langford Park during the St. Anthony Park Fourth surface, soccer-training and free-play of July festivities. If you missed them, you can still catch a summer facility. The six grants are valued at a performance of the band at Alden Park (one block south of Como total of $48,000 and went to urban Avenue and one block east of Raymond Avenue) Tuesday, Aug. 2, at soccer programs in Hoboken, N.J.; 7 p.m., or see them in the Minnesota State Fair Mall Parade on Detroit; Newburgh, N.Y.; Oxnard, Friday, Aug. 26, at 2 p.m. This is the band’s 30th year performing in Calif.; Trotwood, Ohio; and St. Paul. the area. To find out more, go to the band’s website at www.stanthonyparkband.org. Photo by Lori Hamilton Local girl walks tightrope in Cir- baths. cus Juventas’ summer show Cost is $5. Call Lutheran Social Services St. Anthony Park resident Ame Youth ages 10 to 15 can attend of Minnesota, 651-642-5990, Smith is one of several stars in the a field trip to Lilli Putt Family for more information. Circus Juventas show GRIMM— Entertainment Center Tuesday, Aug. Happily Ever After, which opened 9, from noon to 3 p.m. Cost is $5. Gibbs Museum hosts craft fair July 28 and runs through Aug. 14. Participants must register ahead of Gibbs Museum will host a craft fair Smith will perform on the time and provide permission slips for Saturday, Aug. 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 tightrope in this performance, which all field trips. p.m. Local artisans will demonstrate is based on popular Grimm Brothers Children ages 7 to 14 can how to make crafts from days gone fairy tales: Cinderella, Hansel and participate in the free program Carpe by. Many demonstrations will be Gretel, Snow White, Little Red Diem Aug. 8 to 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. hands-on, so guests can make and Riding Hood, Rapunzel and the There will be different activities each take crafts home. Cost is $8 for Frog Prince. day, including Wiffle ball, kickball, adults, $7 for seniors and $5 for The performance will feature game day, football training, drawing, children. All crafts, activities and food traditional circus acts peformed by a super soaker shoot out and more. are included in the cost of admission. more than 70 advance-level students Pre-register for fall classes at at Circus Juventas’ Big Top, 1270 www.stpaul.gov/parks. Bluegrass jam and jam-making Montreal Ave., St. Paul. contest in Roseville Aug. 7 Circus Juventas is the largest LSS refugee support Enter your hot and spicy jams and youth circus school in North group seeks volunteers jellies in the Hot and Spicy America. For ticket information, call LSS Refugee Services is seeking JAMboree Sunday, Aug. 7, during the box office, 612-343-339, or go volunteers for its Friday Morning the Mosquito Bluegrass Jam at the online, www.ticketworks.com. Citizenship Class for a group of Frank Rog Amphitheater in senior Bhutanese refugees. The Roseville’s Central Park. The jams NW Como Rec Center offerings group also helps refugees learn will be judged by attendees who can There are still openings for youth basic English skills, exposes them pay $1 to sample the jams. soccer and flag football at Northwest to U.S. customs and lifestyles The contest is a fundraiser for Como Recreation Center. Call 651- and gives them time to socialize. the Harriet Alexander Nature 298-5813 for space availability for Volunteers do not need to Center. children ages 3–14. know Bhutanese. Volunteers are Register at the Roseville Parks Youth 10 years and older can needed to help with and Recreation desk at City Hall, attend a field trip to the Highland transportation, assist with the 2660 Civic Center Drive. In addition Park Aquatic Center on Wednesday, class and most of all, provide a Aug. 3, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. smiling face. Neighbors to 12 12 PARK BUGLE n AUGUST 2011

AUGUST Events Contact information is at the end of 4:15 p.m., St. Anthony Park library 22 MONDAY Mon 10-5; Tues-Thurs 10-7; Fri & Sat 10-5; Closed Sun the calendar. Send your events to Falconers Card Club, 1 p.m., 500, [email protected] by Aug. 17 10 WEDNESDAY Cribbage, Falcon Heights City Hall to be included in the September Park Bugle. English Conversation Circle, 4 to 5:30 p.m., St. Anthony Park library 23 TUESDAY 2 TUESDAY Block Nurse Exercise, 3:15 to 11 THURSDAY 4:15 p.m., St. Anthony Park library Block Nurse Exercise, 3:15 to 4:15 p.m., St. Anthony Park library Reading Program: Bookcrobatics, 11 a.m. to noon and 2 to 3 p.m., 24 WEDNESDAY St. Anthony Park Book Club, 6:30 St. Anthony Park library to 8 p.m., The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana English Conversation Circle, 4 to 5:30 p.m., St. Anthony Park library Soli, St. Anthony Park library 12 FRIDAY Block Nurse Exercise, 3:15 to 26 FRIDAY 3 WEDNESDAY 4:15 p.m., St. Anthony Park library English Conversation Circle, 4 to Block Nurse Exercise class, 3:15 to 5:30 p.m., St. Anthony Park library “Texture” opening reception, 6 to 4:15 p.m., St. Anthony Park library 8 p.m., Raymond Avenue Gallery 4 THURSDAY 30 TUESDAY 13 SATURDAY Summer Reading Program: Brodini Block Nurse Exercise, 3:15 to Comedy Magic Show, 11 a.m. to St. Anthony Park Area Seniors Be 4:15 p.m., St. Anthony Park library noon and 2 to 3 p.m., St. Anthony Well As You Age Film Series, 10:30 Park library a.m. to 12:30 p.m. “Hospice: Every- 31 WEDNESDAY thing You Should Know” with speaker Jane Hagstrom from Hospice of the English Conversation Circle, 4 to 5 FRIDAY Twin Cities. St. Anthony Park library 5:30 p.m., St. Anthony Park library Block Nurse Exercise, 3:15 to 4:15 p.m., St. Anthony Park library 16 TUESDAY Contact information: Block Nurse Exercise, 3:15 to 6 SATURDAY 4:15 p.m., St. Anthony Park library Central Park, 2540 N. Lexington Craft fair, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Ave., Roseville Gibbs Museum 17 WEDNESDAY Falcon Heights City Hall, 2077 English Conversation Circle, 4 to Larpenteur Ave., 651-644-5050 7 SUNDAY 5:30 p.m., St. Anthony Park library Gibbs Museum, Larpenteur and Mosquito Bluegrass Jam, 3 to 8 p.m., Cleveland, 651-646-8629 Frank Rog Amphitheatre, Central 18 THURSDAY Park, Roseville Raymond Avenue Gallery, 761 Summer Reading Program: Ten Penny Raymond Ave., 651-644-9200 Tunes, 11 a.m. to noon and 2 to 8 MONDAY 3 p.m., St. Anthony Park library St. Anthony Park Branch Library, Falconers Card Club, 1 p.m., 500, 2245 Como Ave., 651-642-0411 Cribbage, Falcon Heights City Hall 19 FRIDAY Block Nurse Exercise, 3:15 to 9 TUESDAY 4:15 p.m., St. Anthony Park library Block Nurse Exercise, 3:15 to

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St. Paul’s award to the $5 entry fee, entrants are Drop-in Drum Circle Aug. 20 empowering immigrant women and required to submit two unlabeled The Women’s Drum Center, 2242 girls to succeed, will celebrate its winning developer and half-pint jars of their jam or jelly for University Ave. W., invites women to fourth annual Cultural Art Imbizo manager of high quality the contest. Registration ends at 4 a Drop-in Drum Circle on Saturday, Friday, Aug. 26, from 4 to 8 p.m. at p.m. Friday, Aug. 5. No late entries commercial and Aug. 20, at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $10 at Hamline Park Plaza, 570 Asbury St. will be allowed. the door. Find out more at The event will feature artists, art residential real estate The Mosquito Bluegrass Jam www.womensdrumcenter.org. workshops, international food, begins at 3 p.m. with performances entertainment from cultural Office Space v Retail shops by Bill Cagley, the Wild Goose Chase Meet St. Paul City Council performing organizations, a silent Cloggers, Sawtooth Bluegrass Band and School Board candidates auction and games for children. Residential Condominiums and the Barley Jacks with Brian For more information, visit Wicklund. The last performance is The League of Women Voters of St. www.womenofwise.org. scheduled for 7 p.m. Paul will hold a meet-and-greet event for candidates running in the St. Paul Lutheran Social Service hosts City Council and School Board races night of music and stories Briscoe, Torborg featured on Thursday, Aug. 25, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Wilder Center Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota at Raymond Avenue Gallery will host an evening of stories and “Texture,” an exhibit featuring work Auditorium, 451 N. Lexington Parkway. For more information, music by the Grammy Award- by potter Bob Briscoe and winning Steele family on Saturday, photographer Wayne Torborg will contact Ami Wazlawik, 651-270- 7986. Sept. 17, at the Hilton Minneapolis, open Friday, Aug. 12, at the 1001 Marquette Ave. . Raymond Avenue Gallery, 761 Cultural Art Imbizo is Aug. 26 Tickets are $90 each ($60 is tax- Raymond Ave. An opening reception deductible), or $900 per table of 10 651-292-9844 Women’s Initiative for Self will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. that ($600 is tax-deductible). For more Empowerment (WISE), a St. Paul www.wellingtonmgt.com evening. The show will run through information, visit www.lssmn.org. Friday, Sept. 23. nonprofit with the mission of AUGUST 2011 n PARK BUGLE 13

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Marie Abraham will be remembered for his ready Sidney Giefer chocolate was evident in her baking Born Lucille Grace Jenkins on Marie C. Abraham, 94, died July 14. laugh, hearty chuckle and love for his Sidney L. Giefer, 86, died June 21. and no one has yet to duplicate her Feb. 8, 1920, near Worthington, She was preceded in death by her family. He was a World War II Army molasses cookies. Those who knew Minn., Lucille was orphaned within husband, Roland, one grandson and Bill is survived by Mary, his wife veteran, an avid long-blade skater, a her will miss her whistling as she days of her birth when both parents all of her siblings and their spouses. of 61 years; sons, Paul (Pam), Peter golfer and a lover of cats. worked, her beautiful smile, her succumbed to the influenza Marie is survived by three children, (Cindy) and Doug; daughter, Kate He was preceded in death by his tenderheartedness to all living things epidemic. She was raised in St. Paul Robert (Hyang-hwan Kim), Jeanne (Ralph) Rinehart; eight grand- wife, Eleanor. He is survived by a son, and her ability to see beauty all by her aunt and uncle, Lottie and (David) Schafer and Richard (Carol children; and brother, Joe (Judi), of around her, especially in the skies Gregory (Sandy) Giefer; daughter, Lives Lived to 14 Lien); 10 grandchildren; and 11 Albuquerque, N.M. Cynthia (William) Amadick; three toward the end of her life. great-grandchildren. A memorial service was held grandchildren; and two great July 2 at St. Michael’s Lutheran Her funeral service was held July grandchildren. D
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E 18. It was originally scheduled to be Church. His funeral service was held held at St. Anthony Park United Grace Flaten June 27, at Como Park Lutheran Methodist Church, but because of Church, with interment at Sunset the extreme heat, the service was Grace M. Flaten (née Mathre), 81, Memorial Park Cemetery. moved to St. Anthony Park Lutheran died peacefully in her sleep on July 8, Church. Interment was at Roselawn after a short illness. Marion Hagen Cemetery. Grace was born in 1930 in Marion Burton Hagen, 89, died in Minot, N.D., one of twin daughters Claremont, Calif. She grew up in State License Marjorie Ammann #1856 of the Rev. Gerhard and Esther Falcon Heights and graduated from Marjorie J. Ammann, 88, died July Mathre. She married Donald Flaten St. Paul Central High School and the   sWWWTRANSFORMEDTREECOM  s WWWWWWWWTRANSFFOORMEDDTTREECOM 7. She was preceded in death by her in 1952. After his ordination in University of Minnesota. She is husband, Martin. She is survived by 1956, they served as Lutheran survived by four daughters and their her children, Tom (Mary), Robert missionaries in West Africa for 38 families and a brother, Robert A. (Janet), Linda Metz, Christine years. (Jeanne) Hagen of Richfield. Leitner, Rich and Gloria (Dennis) The Flatens served parishes in Zeller Plumbing Service Richie; 14 grandchildren; 12 great- Lodgepole, Neb.; Dazey and Rogers, Lucille Halverson Repair or Replacement of: N.D.; Grafton, N.D.; and Wykoff, Toilets / Faucets / Disposals / Water, grandchildren; a great-great- Lucille Grace Halverson, longtime Minn. grandchild; two brothers, Lyle St. Anthony Park resident, died Drain and Gas Pipes She is survived by her husband, Hillstrom and Roger Koch; and two peacefully on June 6 at the age of the Rev. Donald Flaten; sons, Dale 10% OFF Labor with ad. sisters-in-law. 91. She will be remembered for her (Janet) and James (Carol); daughters, Free estimates, call and compare Mass of Christian Burial was passion for walking, her love of Joan Holliman and Jeanne (Glenn) Raymond M. Zeller / 651-690-0421 celebrated at Maternity of Mary children and animals, and her Ferguson; nine grandchildren; and Park resident for over 20 years / Lic # 003473m / Bonded, Insured Catholic Church on July 13, with servant’s heart toward all. Her love of interment at Elmhurst Cemetery. five great-grandchildren. Rolland Atz Rolland A. “Rollie” Atz, 72, died at The friendly home on June 30, after an eight-year neighborhood drug Thank You from the battle with progressive supranuclear store is not a thing of palsy. He was born May 5, 1939. the past! Rollie was a native of Como Fourth in the Park Park and a current resident of Eagan. We’re on the verge of Committee! He was a 1957 graduate of St. a great American Thomas Academy and a 1961 Renaissance! We are the Thank you to our St. Anthony Park neighbors and businesses for your generous support of the 4th of July cele- graduate of St. Thomas College. He ones we have been wait- bration held in Langford Park. This event is made possible because of your volunteer time and financial contri- ing for. We can change butions. It is with appreciation that we thank individuals and businesses that contributed at least $50 to our worked for many years for Ramsey society and our world! community celebration. County and the state of Minnesota. Patriot ($500 or more) Sparkler ($50 or more) He was preceded in death by his Park Midway Bank James Roehrenbach-State Farm brother, Laurent. He is survived by Schneider Saint Anthony Park Community Foundation Damon Anderson and Julia Lupe his wife of 48 years, Carolyn; The Emily Program Robert Arndorfer Dorothy Belgum Knight children, Tom (Janet), Terry (Jenny) Drug Starburst ($200 or more) David Bienhoff and Tim (Brenna); nine Championchip MN Inc Michael Burbach and Mary Thomas grandchildren; and sister, Lynn (Ed) Fighting for a just and Tim and Tom's Speedy Market Tom and Barbara Burk civil society. Carter Avenue Frame Shop Garvin and Bernice Davenport Ferguson. Emil Gustafson Jewelers Thomas Fisher and Claudia Wielgorecki Mass of Christian Burial was Park Service Derek Fried and Elisabeth Currie celebrated July 6 at Maternity of Support Peapods Julie Glowka The Bibelot Shop Warren and Kiki Gore Mary Catholic Church, with candidates Health Partners Susan Hakomaki interment at Roselawn Cemetery. who will– Charles Nauen and PJ Pofahl Greg Haley St. Anthony Park Home Brenda and Mark Hansen Elizabeth Daley Robert and Alice Hausman – Unite us, not divide us. Fire Cracker ($100 or more) John and Judith Howe Elizabeth (Tellefson) Daley, 79, of St. Anthony Park Dental Arts Elizabeth Kaufman Lauderdale, died peacefully at home – Inspire the nobility of Ben Quie & Sons Scott and Dianne Krizan on July 4. She is survived by six our character, not our Mead and June Cavert Jane Leonard and Loretto Lippert prejudices and fears. Como Park High School Kathy Magnuson children; 14 grandchildren; eight Kent and Katherine Eklund Alisa and Eamonn Mee great-grandchildren; and one sister. Rose Gregoire and Robert Delmas Micawber’s Books – Articulate our need for Lisa Habeck and Frank Steen Bjorn and Margot Monson Her funeral was held July 8 at a moral position in Dave Hansen and Karen Lilly Brad Nelson Redeemer Baptist Church in our world. Rebecca and Paul Hirdman Kristen Nelson and Thomas Will Oakdale, with interment at William and Nancy Lorimer Norma Smith Olson and Mark Olson Mim's and Lori's Eric and Deborah Paulsrud Resurrection Catholic Cemetery. All our violence, Muffuletta Anthony and Kathleen Pfaff against women, Paul Kirkegaard DDS Gary and Teresa Reineccius William Duddleston immigrants, gays and Glen and Anna Skovholt Joan and Fred Steinhauser Mark Steinhauser and Leslie Kopietz Donald Stryker and Kristal Leebrick William Lee Duddleston, 82, of lesbians will happen again and again until Robert and Mavis Straughn Blaine and Cindy Thrasher Falcon Heights, died June 28. we come to grips with Thomas Landscape Cindy Tong and Robert Denison He served in the U.S. Army in Tim Abrahamson Construction Turning Heads our history of slavery. Beth and John VanHecke Evelyn Vik 1946 and 1947. He received a Arlene West and Kevin Bevis Larik and Elizabeth Woronzoff master’s degree in dairy science from 3400 University Ave. S.E., the University of Wisconsin– We attempt to include the names of all who contributed to support the Fourth in the Park celebration. If your name has not been Minneapolis, 612-379-7232 included, please excuse the omission and let us know so that we may properly recognize your gift. To donate online, just go to Madison. His career in the dairy www.sapfoundation.org and click on the "Donate Now" button in the upper right hand corner. You'll be taken to the business spanned more than 55 years, M - F 8:30 - 7, Sat 8:30 - 6 GiveMn.org page, which features the "4th in the Park" among projects to support. Or mail your donation to: Fourth in the taking him to all parts of the world. Park Committee, P.O. Box 8062, St. Paul, MN 55108. He was active in the Wisconsin 1/4 mile west of Hwy. 280 Alumni Association, Kiwanis and the across from KSTP International Dairy Association. He 14 PARK BUGLE n AUGUST 2011

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Burt Kratz, in their home on Bourne husband, Clarence. She is survived John was a man of great hope, suddenly on July 4 at Lyngblomsten care. In 2004, Rita moved to the Avenue. She graduated from by her daughter, Lynda Marie humor, faith, courage and dedication Care Center. She was born Aug. 27, Phoenix Residence, where Leonora Mechanic Arts High School in 1939 Halverson Edone; four to his family. A native of northeast 1923, in Minneapolis. Leonora was a visited her weekly until Rita’s death and married Clarence Halverson grandchildren and their spouses; and Iowa, he received his bachelor’s mother of eight children; co-founder in 2004. April 12, 1947. eight granddaughters. degree from Luther College and a of Our House of Minnesota, a St. Besides Mary and Rita, Leonora They lived in the family A memorial celebration of her master’s degree from Luther Paul nonprofit residence for people was preceded in death by her homestead until they moved up the life will be held on Saturday, Aug. 20, Seminary. His many years in public with developmental disabilities; a husband and her daughter-in-law, street to 2342 Bourne Ave. She made at St. Anthony Park United policy included serving as deputy founding member of a food Denise Iverson. She is survived by her her home there until she moved to Methodist Church at 3:30 p.m., with director for two state agencies, cooperative on Front Avenue; and a brother, Richard (Gertrude) Schlagel; her daughter’s home in Wimberley, visitation beginning at 2:30 pm. council member for the city of lifelong activist in support of people children, John (Phyllis), Mark Tex., in 2003, following a pedestrian Falcon Heights and lobbyist for with developmental disabilities and (Shelley), Leo (Elnora Bracey), Paul accident. It was suggested she may John Hustad health concerns. their families. (Susan Stokes), Rose (John Wilson), not walk again, but she proved them John O. Hustad, 57, Falcon Heights, His funeral service was held July She was active in St. Andrew’s Therese and her former in-laws, wrong and continued to be an avid died July 13. 19 at University Lutheran Church of Catholic Church in St. Paul. Carla Sherman and Richard Foley; walker, even in the heat of Texas, He is survived by his wife, Nan Hope in Minneapolis. In the 1980s, she cooked the 18 grandchildren; and two great- until she was stricken with Knutsen; children, Karis and senior meals at St. Anthony Park granddaughters. Her neighbors on pneumonia in April of this year. Christian; mother, Aldora; a sister, Leonora Sherman United Methodist Church. Every Burgess Street, Marcia Mederious She is preceded in death by her Kathy; and brothers and sisters-in- Leonora C. Sherman, 87, died August she was in the Creative and Marilyn Cassellius, were very law. Activities building at the Minnesota helpful to her in her final years there. State Fair clerking for judges and re- Mass of Christian Burial was canning the canned goods entries. celebrated July 8, at Maternity of In later years, she was active on Mary Catholic Church, with Don Breneman and Mark Seeley the board of the Phoenix Residence, interment at Holy Trinity Cemetery, a group facility where her daughter Winsted. discuss their book Voyageur Skies: Rita lived. Leonora attended every Weather and the Wilderness in DFL precinct caucus she could and Rhonda Wellner-Chiodo never missed voting in an election Rhonda R. Wellner-Chiodo, 51, of Minnesota’s National Park. until her final year. Como Park, died suddenly on June Leonora grew up in Detroit and 15. She is survived by her husband of Thursday, Aug. 18, 5 - 7 p.m. at Chicago and spent summers with her 24 years, Glenn; children, Meghann Austrian-born grandparents on a Devon and Nathan; and mother, Park Midway Bank. farm near Winsted, Minn. In 1947, Jean Wellner. she married Eugene (Gene) Henry. Celebration of Life was held They moved to the Como Park area June 21, at St. Timothy Lutheran in 1955, where Leonora lived there Church. until moving to Lyngblomsten in the eternally optimistic book people 2009. Albert Swanson 651-646-5506 / www.micawbers.com / www.micawbers.blogspot.com Her oldest daughter, Mary, Albert Randall “Joe” Swanson, 88, 2238 Carter Ave., St. Paul – In Milton Square on Carter at Como drowned at 16 in a swimming Hours: M-F 10 am - 8 pm / Sat 10 am - 6 pm / Sun 11 am - 5 pm born Feb. 18, 1923, died on July 10. accident. The youngest, Rita, had Joe is survived by his wife of 67 cerebral palsy and needed constant years, Lois; brother, Winfield (Margaret); sister, Leone Beneke; son, Tom (Linda); daughter, Joy (Shawn); three grandchildren; and two great- granddaughters,. Preceding Joe in death were his Community Worship Directory daughter, Barbie, and brothers, Harlan and Alan. v COMO PARK LUTHERAN CHURCH - ELCA v ST. ANTHONY PARK UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST A memorial service was held www.comoparklutheran.org 2129 Commonwealth Ave. (corner of Commonwealth & Chelmsford) July 12 at the Falcon Heights Town www.comoeveningprayer.org 651-646-7173 www.sapucc.org Square Apartments. 1376 Hoyt Ave. W, St. Paul, MN 55108-2300 10 a.m. worship 651-646-7127 Pastor Victoria Wilgocki Handicapped Accessible God Is Still Speaking Sunday worship schedule: Anna Emma Zibell v 8:30 and 10 a.m. Worship (nursery care 8:15 - 11 a.m.) ST. ANTHONY PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Anna Emma Zibell, 104, a Roseville 7 p.m. Como Evening Prayer Worship www.sapumc.org Holy Communion on 1st and 3rd Sundays All are welcome! Pioneer, died July 2. She was born Rides available for 10 a.m. worship; call before noon on Friday. 2200 Hillside Ave. (at Como) 651-646-4859 April 3, 1907, at home in Roseville Outdoor Worship Service and Picnic: Sunday, Aug. 28, 10 a.m. Pastor Donna Martinson at Larpenteur and Fernwood. Join us at the Como Park East Picnic Shelter (Midway Pkwy. & Horton Ave.). Sundays: She was preceded in death by Worship with band at 10 a.m.; picnic to follow. Bring friends, family and neighbors! 10 a.m. Worship celebration her husband, Otto E.; son, Richard; Pastor Martin R. Ericson 11 a.m. Fellowship and refreshments Director of Music Ministry: Thomas Ferry a great-grandson; and three siblings. v ST. ANTHONY PARK LUTHERAN CHURCH She is survived by two sons, Donald v FALCON HEIGHTS UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST www.saplc.org (Luella) and Les (Julie); eight grand- 1795 Holton St. at Garden, 651-646-2681 2323 Como Ave. W. (651) 645-0371 children; 16 great-grandchildren; and www.falconheightsucc.org Staffed nursery available - Handicap-accessible 10 great-great-grandchildren. Sundays: 9:30 a.m. worship (summer hours, through Aug. 28) Pastors Glenn Berg-Moberg and Marc Ostlie-Olson Communion, first Sunday of the month Email: [email protected] Her funeral was held July 6, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 10 – Book discussion: The Working Poor, by David Shipler Summer Worship Schedule: One service 10 a.m. Mount Olive Lutheran Church, with An Open and Affirming, Just Peace church; handicap accessible Vacation Bible School – August 1-5, 9 a.m. to noon interment at Elmhurst Cemetery. Rally Day is coming Sept. 11 – Two worship services 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. v HOLY CHILDHOOD CATHOLIC CHURCH Minnesota Faith Chinese Lutheran Church 1:30 p.m. 1435 Midway Parkway, St. Paul, MN 55108 Handicap Accessible There is no charge for Bugle obituaries. Rectory/office: 651-644-7495, www.holychildhoodparish.org Obituaries are compiled by Mary Sunday Masses: Saturday, 5 p.m.; Sunday, 7:45 and 10 a.m. Mergenthal, 651-644-1650 or Daily Mass 7:45 a.m. with Rosary following Monday-Thursday and 6:30 p.m. Thursday v ST. MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH [email protected]. Confession: Saturday, 3:30-4:30 p.m., and Sunday, 9:30-10 a.m. The Rev. Blair A. Pogue, Rector 2136 Carter at Chelmsford, 651-645-3058, www.stmatthewsmn.org v MT. OLIVE EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH-WELS Sundays: 9 a.m. (Summer schedule; regular schedule resumes Sept. 11) www.mtolive-wels.net, 651-645-2575 Wednesday: 10 a.m. service of Holy Eucharist 1460 Almond Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108 Please join us – All are welcome! Handicapped accessible Tim Abrahamson Sunday: Worship 9 a.m. v PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH - ELCA Pastor Al Schleusener 1744 Walnut (at Ione), Lauderdale. 651-644-5440 Construction www.peacelauderdale.com v ST. 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Irish pub to open on Larpenteur That construction activity at the former Chianti Grill site on the northwest side of the intersection of Snelling and Larpenteur avenues is a DAN BANE CPA, LLC prelude to the opening of Stout’s Pub, scheduled for late September. Certified Public The property, vacant since the Accountant Chianti Grill moved to the Har Mar Mall area in Roseville several years ago, is being developed by Superior Providing Individual & Concepts. The company owns the Park B4 Dark Business Tax Service. Roseville Chianti Grill and one in The Ted Olsen Trio performed at Park B4 Dark in St. Anthony Park Burnsville, as well as Porterhouse on July 21. The jazz group includes Darren Sterud, trombone; Steak and Seafood restaurants in Matthew Buckner, drums; and Ted Olsen, bass. This is the second Little Canada and Lakeville. year that the Como Avenue business community has hosted Park Conveniently located in the Baker Ct Bldg Prior to the Chianti Grill, the B4 Dark, which is held on the third Thursday in the months of June, (1 Blk East of 280 at corner of Territorial & Raymond) Falcon Heights location was July and August. The event features live local music and shopping at 821 Raymond Ave – Ste 310, St Paul 55114. occupied by Ciatti’s Italian and dining specials. The next Park B4 Dark is scheduled for Restaurant and, before that, the Lido Thursday, Aug. 18, from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Café. Call for an appointment 651-999-0123 There will be more information or visit my website at: www.danbanecpa.com about Stout’s Pub in an upcoming Aug. 10, you will get an extra 10 at 2230 Como Ave. The facility will issue of the Park Bugle.—Roger percent discount.) also house outpatient treatment for Bergerson patients and their families. The Kari Neathery has been hired as the facility is the third building LetUs be your handyman! new general manager at Hampden purchased by the Emily Program in Business Briefs Spring Clean Up • Carpentry • Deck Cleaning/Repair Park Co-op, 928 Raymond Ave. She the St. Anthony Park neighborhood, Suka-Rama is closing. The • Gutter Cleaning • Fence Repair • Painting and replaces Matt Hass. Neathery has 23 including its headquarters at 2265 boutique at 2301 Como Ave. will Staining • Screen Repair • Window Replacement years of experience working for W. Como Ave. and the Anna Westin close its doors when the business’s • Tilework • And Much Much More! nonprofits, including serving as House at 1449 Cleveland Ave. Multiple lease expires at the end of August. In executive director of the Powderhorn The program will offer 651-653-8887 Year Service her email newsletter, proprietor Sue Park Neighborhood Association in individual and group therapy; Award Rohricht urged her customers to Minneapolis. Her position begins education from licensed St. Paul letusservice.com • [email protected] come into the store for a fire sale that Licensed and Insured • Lic. # 20626922 Winner Sept. 1. She and her two daughters Public Schools teachers; art, music, includes new inventory that has been live in the Hamline Midway recreation, movement and other in storage. This month, the store is neighborhood. therapies; and services and support offering a progressive sale that for family members. includes a 30 percent discount, along The 10-bed Anna Westin House- The Emily Program purchased with an additional discount that Adolescent, a residential treatment the former Toogood building from corresponds to the date the customer program exclusively for adolescents Children’s Home Society and Family SUPERCHARGEDSUPERCHARGED is in the store. (If you shop there on with eating disorders, opened in July Services in 2010 and remodeled it. TOILETTOILET Why use Carter Ave. Frame Shop? Reason #38 Fast service. Most framing projects completed in one week. Even quicker when needed. www.carteravenueframeshop.com Hours: weekdays 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. / Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. AlwaysAlways Fresh!Fresh!

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