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Hill&Lak‘WhereePress the biggies leave off...’ Published for East Isles, Lowry Hill, Kenwood Isles, & CIDNA VOLUME 37 NUMBER 8 www.hillandlakepress.com AUGUST 23, 2013 Dean Parkway, West Cedar Lake Trail Improvements Begin SWLRT - The time is NOW to get September 3 involved By Jeanette Colby & Courtney Cushing Kiernat Photo by Courtney Cushing Kiernat Louise Erdrich and her niece showed their support for saving the Kenilworth Greenway, a regional asset used by nearly one million people a year. LRT Done Right, a grassroots citizens’ group, believes mass transit is important for a vital metropolitan By Michael Wilson area and is dedicated to ensuring that the Southwest Light Rail Transit (SWLRT) is a good long-term investment for The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) The Metro Transit stop for Route 25 at Lake Street and our city and region. We organized early this summer is poised to begin long-awaited and much-needed Dean Parkway will be closed or relocated. with the goal of improving the SWLRT decision-making improvements to the biking and walking trails along A major focus of reconstruction will be the problem- process and outcomes. Dean Parkway and portions of west Cedar Lake. Both are atic and dangerous Dean Parkway-Cedar Lake Parkway In mid-July, the Met Council held SWLRT meetings segments of the 53-mile Grand Rounds National and intersection. The intersection will remain open to traffic, to present ideas about the previously unaddressed prob- MN State Scenic Byway. MPRB owns, operates, and but Bartels cautions drivers to expect delays. Work at the lem of the “temporary” freight rail now on the chosen maintains both Dean Parkway and West Cedar Lake intersection is slated for completion by Oct. 4, two days SWLRT route, the Kenilworth Greenway. The Hill & Parkway as part of the Grand Rounds. before the Twin Cities Marathon. Lake community came out in force, and since then we Starting Sept. 3, off-street trails and walks from Lake Safety will also be greatly improved on the Cedar Lake have seen a number of positive developments. Mayor Street north to West Lake of the Isles Parkway and west Parkway hill from Dean Parkway to the Kenilworth Trail, Rybak, for example, has publicly challenged the environ- along Cedar Lake Parkway to the Kenilworth Trail will be where the roadway will be narrowed by removing the on- mental impact of a shallow LRT tunnel on Lake of the reconstructed, according to Deborah Bartels, MPRB pro- road bike lanes. An off-road bike and pedestrian path will Isles and Cedar Lake. Senator Scott Dibble and ject manager. Sidewalks in front of homes in the con- be constructed on the northeast side of the Parkway. Representative Frank Hornstein have pushed the Met struction area will remain open; detours will be posted. Completion of this segment of the project is scheduled Council to listen to community concerns and take time to for Oct. 31. address critical questions before making a final decision. The Midtown Greenway ramp to Dean Parkway will Many of you have made the effort to contact your INSIDE be closed for part of the project construction period. elected officials and Met Council members. It sometimes The Point Beach parking lot on the west side of feels that these letters are a waste of time, but please be Happenings 2 Cedar Lake will be reconstructed and the bike trail Meet your Neighbor 3 assured that without your efforts, co-location of freight realigned to run alongside the Parkway. Due to the park- rail and LRT on Kenilworth – including the destruction SW LRT 4-6,13 ing lot construction and bike trail closure Bartels says that of homes and trails – was all but certain. Community Thomas Lowry Park 8-9 cyclists are encouraged to avoid this area entirely by using involvement has contributed to the state we now find Council Member Meg Tuthill 10 the Kenilworth Trail and the Cedar Lake Regional Trail ourselves in – a delayed Met Council recommendation EIRA, CIDNA, 10-11 along the north side of Cedar Lake. Completion of this with serious consideration of a deep tunnel and Masthead 14 segment is planned for Oct. 31. expressed concerns about the current alignment as it Real Estate 14 For more information go to <minneapolisparks.org>. stands. ASk Us 14 Go to “Current Projects” on the left side of the home- We hope this more careful process continues. To that Letters 14 page and scroll down to “Dean Parkway-West Cedar end, LRT Done Right advocates: Editor 14 Lake Trail Improvements.” For additional information No co-location of freight rail and LRT on the Madeleine Lowry 15 contact Deborah Bartels at 612-230-6438 or <dbar- Kenilworth Greenway (including a shallow tunnel, since Sand Upon the Waters 16 [email protected]>. LRT Done Right to page 5 2HILL AND LAKE PRESS HAPPENINGS AUGUST 23, 2013 NO LUNCH WITH LISA UNTIL SEPT. 25 Birchbark Books Reading Series HAPPENINGS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AUGUST 27, 5:30 - 7PM ELLISON AT THE AIRPORT Minneapolis Uptown Rotary The Birchbark Books Reading Series begins its 5th SEPTEMBER 7 SUPER SALE www.clubrunner.ca/mplsuptownrotary season of readings Wednesday, September 11 at 7:00 SEPTEMBER 8 WALK THE WEDGE HOME TOUR Uptown Rotary meets at the Minikahda Country p.m. Featured will be Minnesota Book Award winner SEPTEMBER 11, 7PM BIRCHBARK BOOKS READING Club 7:30 to 8:30 am on Thursdays. Gwen Westerman and members of TGIFrybread, the SEPTEMBER 13, 1PM AUDUBON SOCIETY S SEPTEMBER 15 BIKE TOUR Loft sponsored writers group for Native writers. SEPTEMBER 29, N.I.P. MUSIC FOR MEDICINE Scheduled to read from TFIGrybread are Colleen Audubon Society OCTOBER 30 WINETASTING FUNDRAISER Friday, September 13, 2013 1 p.m. Casey, Delaney Deer, Sandy White Hawk, and Marne Everyone is welcome to our first meeting of the sea- Zafar. The evening will be co-facilitated by Neighborhood monthly meetings: son! Potluck at 1 p.m. – bring a dish to share and uten- TGIFrybread member Ardie Medina. CIDNA: 2nd Wednesday 6pm at Jones-Harrison sils. The program at 2 p.m. will feature Sue Leaf dis- The reading will be at Lake of the Isles Lutheran EIRA: 2nd Tuesday 7pm. July 9 & August 13, The cussing her recent biography Thomas Sadler Roberts: A Church 2020 West Lake of the Isles Parkway, Bridge for Youth Love Affair With Birds. Join the Minneapolis Audubon Minneapolis. (near Birchbark KIAA: 1st Monday 7pm Kenwood Rec Center, LHNA: 1st Tuesday 7pm at Kenwood Rec Center Society for food and fun at the Bryant Square Books) http://www.loti.org/ Book signing will follow the reading. Next meeting September 10 Neighborhood Center, 31st & Bryant Avenue S, just Meet with Meg 2nd Monday, 6-7pm Bryant Square one block south of Lake Street, easily accessible via the Curated by Michael Kiesow Moore, the reading #4 bus, which runs every 15 minutes! For more infor- series features new, emerging, and established writers quarterly from September through May. mation call 952-926-4205. Meet with Meg is held the third Monday of Minneapolis Bike Tour — Sunday, every month from 6-7pm at Bryant Square Park 2013 Minneapolis City Academy (3101 Bryant Ave S). The Minneapolis City Academy program, which September 15 begins Sept. 18, is a chance for people to learn the lat- Early registration rates available through September est in firefighting techniques, tour the water treatment 1. This recreational bike tour for all ages and abilities plant, find out how future developments are planned spans the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway System. and constructed, ask questions of City government Proceeds from the Bike Tour benefit bike safety and CLASSIFIED leaders and much more! City Academy sessions will be education events for Minneapolis youth and bike trail held weekly from Sept. 18 through Oct. 16 at locations improvement projects throughout the system. The Bike AUGUST 2013 throughout Minneapolis. Sessions will run from 6:30 to Tour features a 14-mile and a 36-mile route; both are CARPENTRY. Windows, doors. Siding. Fences, 9 p.m. The program is open to all Minneapolis residents closed to motorized traffic and include stops with decks, finish carpentry. Drywall, plaster repair, who are 18 years or older and will be filled on a first- refreshments and bike mechanics. Stick around and taping. Local refs, free ests. Tom 612-824-1554. come, first-served basis. enjoy a post-ride party! For more information: Registration is limited. To enroll in the City http://www.minneapolisparks.org Academy, visit Rates: $7.00 for two lines, $4.00 for each additional line. www.minneapolismn.gov/ncr/MinneapolisCityAcade Send ad and check to Hill & Lake Press, c/o Jean Deatrick, my to register, or call 612-673-3163. 2013 Picture a Park Photo Contest hap- 1821 Dupont Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55403, payable to pening in our parks right now! Hill & Lake Press. There are approximately 48 characters This is a great opportunity to submit any photos you (letter, punctuation, space, number) per line. Music for Medicine Fundraiser to raise may have snapped at any of our park locations or money for Neighborhood Involvement events this summer for a chance to win some great prizes including having your photo featured on the Program (N.I.P.) The 50th anniversary of the March on 2014 annual parking permit. Washington, the turning point demonstration of Music for Medicine This year there are four categories to submit your the Civil Rights movement, will be marked by Date: Sunday, September 29, 2013 photos towards: Beauty in the Parks, Fun in the Parks, another march on Washington, DC on August 24. Price: $40 in advance, $50 at the door Events in the Parks and Photos by Youth.