St. Anthony Park, FalconPa Heights, Lauderdale & Northwestrk Como Park BugleVolume 33, Number 11, May 2007 Dances with cows

by Natalie Zett

ith 22 years’ experience in dance and choreography, Maggie WBergeron can claim veteran status in her chosen field — and she’s not yet 30. Bergeron is hardly resting on her laurels, though. Instead, she’s launching her own dance company and planning a new show, and she wants her neighbors to be part of it all. Bergeron, who lives in St. Anthony Park, recently established her own dance company — Maggie Bergeron and Company — and will perform excerpts of an original piece, “House/Home,” at the Gibbs Museum on May 19. The full version of “House/Home” will premier July 12–14 as a part of the “Momentum” series that will be presented Photo by V. Paul Virtucio by the Walker Art Center and the Southern Theater. Bergeron grew up “on this little farm in the middle of nowhere in St. Anthony Park resident Maggie Bergeron will perform excerpts of an original piece, “House/Home,” northwestern Minnesota. Yet somehow I was exposed to dance. There at the Gibbs Museum on May 19. The full version will premier July 12–14 at the Southern Theater. was a teacher from Grand Forks who came to our town to teach dance classes in the cafeteria of my elementary school. So that’s how I got hooked on the dance thing.” Later, another instructor invited her to study at his dance studio The eagle has landed (and Duke knows where) in Grand Forks, N.D. by Judy Woodward “My parents, who were sugar beet farmers, drove me three or four times a week to Grand Forks — an hour one way,” said Bergeron. A bald eagle is an impressive only things missing are Old evening from 6:30 until dusk at a Eventually, Bergeron began teaching dance classes herself. “I sight. Even when viewed through Glory and the familiar strains of special viewing site near the wanted to dance. I knew it back then,” she said. “Later on, I would an 80-power magnifying scope “The Star-Spangled Banner” Spoon Lake fishing area, west of doubt it, but I knew then.” on a freezing early spring evening welling up in the background. the Highway 61/Highway 36 At age 15, Bergeron found herself torn between home and with busy freeway traffic not 30 It’s a sight that Falcon interchange. following her dreams. “I decided to leave home because I couldn’t get yards away from the bare branch Heights resident Duke Addicks For Addicks, 67, it was what I needed there,” she said. “It was hard, but I had to do it.” on which the bird huddles to plans to enjoy a lot in the coming retirement from his day job as an She found what she wanted at the Interlochen Arts Academy in keep warm, the view conjures up weeks. Addicks, a long-time attorney with Minnesota League Michigan, site of the well-known Interlochen Arts Summer Camp. patriotic images and prompts wildlife volunteer and a of Cities that allowed him to Bergeron attended Interlochen for her junior and senior years of high nature-loving thoughts. recognized expert on both the ramp up his interest in eagles. school, and after graduation she worked summers at the camp as a As the bird turns his white biology and the folklore of the Although he is a 25-year veteran dance teacher. head to reveal the familiar beaked eagle, will offer nature talks and Dances with cows to 16 profile, a viewer feels that the eagle sightings every Wednesday The eagle has landed to 18

Changes approved for Raymond Ave.

At its April 12 meeting, the District 12 Community Council approved traffic-calming measures at the Raymond- Gordon intersection. Plans call for raised islands in the middle of Raymond, as well as additional signage and parking restrictions. Also, bike lanes will be added on both sides of the street. This intersection is one of three along Raymond that a task force identified as needing structural changes to improve pedestrian saftey. The District 12 Community Council has submitted a grant application to the city of St. Paul that would fund the larger project. In the meantime, in response to concerns about a recent accident at the inter-section, Ward 4 City Council Member Jay Benanav was able to procure $24,000 to begin the project at Gordon Avenue this Graphic courtesy of Paul St. Martin, summer. Changes should be St. Paul Dept. of Public Works complete by Labor Day.

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CITY FILES STEVE AHLGREN Practicing Law in St. Anthony Park since 1980 Como Park Lauderdale news, join SAPark, an electronic ¥ Wills ¥ Powers of Attorney ¥ Trusts Hundreds of homes in the Como Lauderdale’s citywide garage sale discussion group of people in St. Anthony Park. To sign up, ¥ Probate ¥ Health Care Directives area will participate in a May 19 will be May 19. There is no cost garage sale day organized by the to participate. The city will scroll to the bottom of www.sapcc.org until you get to 2239 Carter Avenue / 651-646-3325 District 10 Community Council. advertise the sale and create a Area residents can register with map of sale locations. Residents the Yahoo Groups box. District 10, and their sale will be who plan a garage sale that day listed on a map that will be and wish to have it included on Elections for the St. Anthony distributed in the neighborhood, the map must call City Hall Park Community Council were as well as available at (631-0300) by Monday, May 14. held April 10. The following www.ComoPark.org. Sales may begin at 8 a.m. board members were elected: To register a sale online, go north delegates Greg Haley and to www.ComoPark.org, then to Matt Carlson; north alternates the Contact Us page. Choose St. Anthony Park Chris Donaldson and Chris “Garage Sale” and fill in your The third and fourth in a series Kalla; south delegates Ranae name, phone number, e-mail of forums to discuss planning for Hanson, Gregg Richardson and address and a short description of the future of Como Avenue will Arnold Ramler; south alternate your sale. be held in May. Steve Van Houten. Registration is free, but At 7 p.m. on May 2, the donations to the nonprofit Como third and final session directed by The St. Anthony Park Park Community Council (also the Corridor Housing Initiative Community Council recently known as “District 10”) are and the Center for Neighbor- passed a resolution in support of appreciated. Note that sales may hoods will be held at St. Anthony naming one of the proposed begin earlier than scheduled or Park Elementary School. A panel light-rail transit stops the even the day before, but all will of experts will present St. Anthony Park Station. In be advertised for the same times information and respond to addition, the council continues to on Saturday. questions. push for an interim zoning On May 24, the District 12 overlay that would help guide Community Council will host a transit-oriented development on Falcon Heights 7 p.m. meeting at Luther University Avenue. Residents are invited to sign up Seminary to discuss a total vision for the Minnesota Energy for the Como Avenue 2030 Plan. Proposed improvements to the Challenge at Meetings are also planned in Raymond and Gordon www.mnenergychallenge.org. October and November to review intersection were presented to the Once you sign up, you will drafts of the plan. For more SAPCC Board in April. To see receive energy-saving tips. By information, visit drawings of the proposed entering your Falcon Heights www.sapcc.org/events/Como.php. changes, call the office at address, you will be added to the 649-5992. city team and help Falcon If you would like to be kept up — Anne Holzman Heights excel in the challenge. to date on St. Anthony Park MAY 2007 ■ P ARK BUGLE 3

Neighborhood Congratulations to Como Rose Travel Volunteers by Lisa Steinmann 17 years of professional travel service! For all of your travel needs, call or stop in to see Mary Hamel loves a warm kitchen. It’s a place to gather David, Colette, Meg and Marsha. thoughts along with ingredients, ® to be creative, to produce 2301 Como Avenue / St. Paul / 651-646-8855 something nourishing for others TRAVEL and herself. Hamel has spent more time in kitchens than most people. She’s always cooked for her family, and for a time she was co- Zeller Plumbing Service owner of the May Day Café in Repair or Replacement of: Minneapolis. Toilets / Faucets / Disposals / Water, Now her culinary skills Drain and Gas Pipes benefit Open Arms of Minnesota, where Hamel 10% OFF Labor with ad. volunteers once a week. Open Free estimates, call and compare Arms prepares and delivers free Raymond M. Zeller / 651-690-0421 meals to people living with Park resident for over 20 years / Lic # 003473m / Bonded, Insured chronic diseases such as HIV/AIDS, MS, ALS and breast cancer. Each week Hamel leaves her home in St. Anthony Park and drives to the Phillips neighborhood of South Minneapolis. Open Arms is Photo by Lisa Steinmann housed in a one-story brick building on Franklin Avenue and St. Anthony Park resident Mary Hamel volunteers at Open Arms of Fourteenth Street. Minnesota, which delivers free meals to people with chronic diseases. The building has a large Rheinberger, have perfected their By now the long, stainless kitchen and adjacent office space. routine. On a recent Monday steel countertops where Hamel In the entryway is a shelf for afternoon they assembled 225 and Rheinberger work are a magazines such as HIV Plus and dinner meals. mosaic of green, orange and red POZ: Health, Life and HIV. They start by opening two food in neatly organized trays. It’s Open Arms was founded in 30-pound boxes of vegetables — time to wheel out “Oliver,” the 1986 to serve healthy meals to zucchini slices and mixed packaging machine that lays a people with HIV/AIDS, a vegetables — and apportion plastic sheet on top of each tray population for whom it was clear them to trays. Soon one of the and heat-seals it. that a nourishing meal would four kitchen staff members, Asei The meals are then labeled make a difference for both body Tendle, brings out a tray of and put into a freezer until it is and spirit. orange, cheesy spaghetti squares time for the weekly meal delivery In 2005, Open Arms flecked with herbs, which the to 475 Open Arms clients. In expanded its services to include volunteers gingerly lift by spatula people with other chronic from the pan and add to the illnesses. It has also expanded its trays. Volunteers to 12 mission globally by developing a relationship with the Zwane Community Centre in the township of Guguletu, South Africa. Greetings Upon arriving for her two- hour volunteer shift, Hamel From your friends at scrubs her hands, dons an apron, puts on her paperboy hat and Salon are you runs a lint roller over her In The Park clothing. She’s ready for the kitchen. Como Ave / nervous? For the past year, Hamel and Gift Certificates Available her shift partner, Katharine Are you nervous handing over your valued art to inexperienced, part-time chain-store framers? We are professional framers with decades of combined framing experience, Certified Picture Framers on staff, and commitment to giving you great designs and quality craftsmanship. And our work is always guaranteed!

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EDITORIAL

Office: 2190 Como Ave. “In the spring,” the poet sang, “a young man’s fancy lightly turns to is the ground warm enough to plant the tomatoes; does one really need thoughts of love.” more than one zucchini plant; should one take the road less traveled Mailing Address Love is not only for the young, of course, but many for whom the and plant some kale and arugula; will the neighbors mind if our P. O. Box 8126 blush of youth has faded find their springtime fancy turning in a cucumbers climb their fence; and so on and so forth. St. Paul, MN 55108 different direction: to the garden. Rather than addressing a loved one, But for many flower gardeners, the utilitarianism of the vegetable the poems of these devotees are likely to be titled “To a Pansy”: garden renders it a notch lower in the grand scheme of things. Though www.parkbugle.org some flowers can be eaten, people don’t grow them for food. People phone: 651-646-5369 Drink to me only with thy blooms, and I will pledge with mine. And leave a flower in the cup, and I’ll not ask for wine. grow them for . . . for what? fax: 651-646-0159 For love, perhaps. Love of beauty, of shapeliness, of color, of a In the merry month of May, there is perhaps no sweeter agony multifariousness that far exceeds the demands of mere utility. Love of Editor than to walk the multicolored rows of the flower merchants and know life that lies hidden in the earth through a monochromatic winter and Dave Healy that only a paltry fraction of their wares can be purchased and taken emerges to remind us that a world of made is not a world of born. 651-646-5369 home. So many blossoms, so little garden space. Our springtime fancy, it turns out, really is about love. Our love is [email protected] And once home, how tempting to compare one’s own floral array like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung in June. And that rose — and with the spread next door. For the gardener, it’s not only the grass that’s those petunias and impatiens and irises and gloxinia and coneflowers Obituaries Editor greener on the other side of the fence. and dahlias— are a daily reminder during our too-short spring and Mary Mergenthal Dost thou covet thy neighbor’s primrose? summer that the soil yields that which feeds our spirits as well as our 651-644-1650 Yea, verily, we do. And not only that: sometimes we succumb to bodies. [email protected] peony envy. Gladiolas make us glad. Daisies quicken the pulse of the most But, we’re quick to explain, it’s only natural that a Minnesota staid and sober matron. Even confirmed bachelors come unbuttoned in Arts Editor winter — even a comparatively mild one — would leave us prey to the the spring. Antonie Young wandering eye. After looking at white and brown for so long, is it [email protected] And the memory of a host of golden flowers sustains us through surprising that one loses control in the face of red and pink and blue the winter to come. and yellow and orange? And really, we’re not actually lusting after the Calendar Editor flowers next door; we’re just admiring their physical form. For oft, when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood, Raymond Yates Of course, gardens can grow more than flowers, and there is great They flash upon that inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude; [email protected] pleasure to be taken in the springtime deliberations of the vegetable And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils. grower: how much space for the carrots vs. the peas vs. the beans; when Art Director Stephen D. Parker

Proofreaders Lisa Adwan, Christine Elsing, St. Anthony Park Community Foundation announces 2007 grants Nancy Healy by Dave Healy Subscriptions and Delivery Raymond Yates The St. Anthony Park neighborhood for an annual free provides tutoring and meals to and Recreation did the repairs as 651-646-5369 ext. 3 Community Foundation will concert. children of African immigrants. part of its regular maintenance, award more than $35,000 to14 Music in the Park Series: St. Anthony Park Block but the Booster Club decided Billing organizations and initiatives $2,000 for its Family Concert Nurse Program: $1,500 to that improving the surface would John A. Knutson & Co. during its 2007 spring grant cycle. Series and educational outreach. expand services and enhance be a benefit to users of all ages. The following organizations This program brings world-class outreach. The Block Nurse St. Anthony Park Display Advertising will received board-directed artists to the neighborhood for Program is a critical link to the Community Council: $4,000 for 651-646-5369 grants: performances that include free neighborhood senior population, a consultant for the Como Dan Schultz (ext. 1) IFP Minnesota: $1,000 for concerts at local schools and providing transitional care that Avenue Small Area Plan. This Raymond Yates (ext. 2) gallery exhibitions featuring area senior homes. allows them to live indepen- process will help the neighbor- photographers. This organization Park Bugle: $2,000 to dently in their homes as long as hood meet the housing, retail Classified Advertising supports and promotes the work digitize back issues. The Bugle possible. and planning challenges of north Raymond Yates of artists who create screenplays, will convert all the issues in its St. Anthony Park Booster St. Anthony Park’s main 651-646-5369 ext. 2 film, video and photography in 33-year history to PDF files and Club: $1,000 for South thoroughfare. the Midwest. make them available through its St. Anthony Park Rec Center St. Anthony Park The Park Bugle is a community Metropolitan Symphony Web site. upgrade. The Booster Club is Elementary School: $3,000 for newspaper serving St. Anthony Orchestra: $500 for concert St. Matthew’s Tutoring providing additional funds to arts residency programs. These Park, Lauderdale, Falcon support.The symphony brings the Program: $500 for equipment upgrade the floor of the SSA gym Heights and Northwest Como best of classical music to the and supplies. This program from tile to wood. St. Paul Parks 2007 grants to 5 Park. The Bugle reports and analyzes community news and promotes the exchange of ideas and opinions in these com- munities. The Bugle strives to promote freedom of expression, LETTERS enhance the quality of life in the readership communities and Ending the war Library from 11:30 a.m. to Design Center of the University help ground our small srea plan encourage community 1 p.m. Our signs will ask HOW of Minnesota and the many in the realities of public participation. “War is costly. Peace is priceless.” I saw that on a T-shirt, and like CAN WE END THE WAR? neighbors who showed up on expectations and the current Opinions expressed in the Come and join us. Or stop April 11 for the block exercise marketplace. Bugle by the editor, writers and many similar T-shirt slogans it strikes me as both true and and give us your ideas. I will portion of the small area plan for I am always impressed and contributors do not necessarily bring my ironing board so you Como Avenue. This was one of reassured by the level of passion, represent the opinions of the somewhat flip. will have a stable surface on those rare opportunities for a expertise, creativity and board of directors, Park Press, Of course war is costly. The which to write. We will compile neighborhood to become collaboration brought to public Inc. Copyright 2007, Park Press, cost of this war in terms of lives Inc. All rights reserved. and money just keeps escalating. and forward your ideas to our involved on the ground floor of meetings by our community The Park Bugle is But just how do we end the war? elected officials. the planning process. members. published by Park Press, Inc., a Just how do we get to peace? Most important, let us During the course of the The experience of this block nonprofit organization guided We live in a free democracy, think, talk to our friends and evening, thanks to the exercise gives me a great deal of by an elected board of directors. so as citizens we have both the family, and help find a way out remarkable talents of the Design confidence that we can craft a Currently serving on the right and the responsibility to of this costly morass. Center, we were able to mix and final plan that will attract the board are Tom Bielenberg, Polly express our ideas. California is match retail, housing, green kind of development that Cartford, Tom Countryman, Sheila Richter space, parking and other options enhances the character of our considering putting an Iraq war St. Anthony Park Audrey Estebo, Rose Ann plebiscite on its ballot next along some key sections of Como community by helping us achieve Foreman, Dave Griffin, Kim February. Should Minnesota do Avenue. We gained firsthand our shared goals in design, knowledge of the challenge of livability and inclusion. Holman, Lynn Jenkins, Thor the same? A team effort Kommedahl, Connie Powell, On Saturday, May 5, finding economically feasible I would like to thank the District Jon Schumacher Sheila Richter, Eva Rogness, members of St. Anthony Park solutions to our commercial and Milton Sherburne, Nicole Sveen 12 Community Council, the residential needs. executive director Neighbors for Peace will be Center for Neighborhoods, the St. Anthony Park and Cindy Vik Thrasher. demonstrating in front of the This exercise, along with the Corridor Housing Initiative, the panel discussion on May 2, will Community Foundation MAY 2007 ■ P ARK BUGLE 5

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On April 11, St. Anthony Park residents were invited to a “block exercise” sponsored by the Center for Neighborhoods, the Corridor Housing Initiative, the U of M’s Design Center, the District 12 Community Council and the St. Anthony Park Community Foundation. Residents constructed model developments on four sites along Como Avenue, part of the Como Avenue 2030 plan, which will attempt to guide development along Como between Highway 280 and the U of M transitway.

2007 grants from 4 will help purchase batteries for This grant will pay for a teacher’s the iBook laptops critical to these aid to help in classrooms where residencies bring local arts groups studies. numbers are high but not high to create programming that Murray Junior High School: enough for the school district to includes every student at the $2,100 for exhibit cases. Murray support an additional classroom. Our Garden Center is school. has a strong tradition of St. Paul Vocal Forum: achievement in academics, now blooming! $1,000 for concert support. This athletics and extracurricular CONTRIBUTIONS local group provides a unique activities. This money will match musical experience by exploring funds raised by the class of 1946 R.K. Anderson Hanging Baskets regularly $23.99 important issues through vocal to purchase exhibit cases to Eleanor J. Andersen music augmented by lectures, display awards that students and Ann Bettenburg on sale (with coupon) for $16.99. poetry and visuals. Their goal is clubs have received. Denise Copeland to promote peace through Murray Junior High School: Elizabeth Danielson understanding. $2,000 for the Wolfridge Joe and Sue Everson your full service florist Environmental Program. This Gordon & Christy Myers cultivating flowers, family & community for over 100 years! The following organizations grant will support scholarships Earl G. Nelson received grants from designated for the Wolfridge Environmental Judith Payne funds: Learning program emphasizing Kari & Jesse Rise Murray Junior High Science leadership and cultural Gil & Ginnie Sem Lab: $1,800 for the computer understanding. Ceese Stickles & Bob Feigel science probe lab. This lab is St. Anthony Park 1750 W. Larpenteur Ave. 651-646-7135 used for teaching a range of Elementary School: $12,577 for Hazel S. Stoeckeler www.hermesfloral.com We deliver metro wide scientific curricula. The money teacher support in the classroom. 6 P ARK BUGLE ■ MAY 2007

Spring plant sales offer timely help for seedling-challenged gardeners by Anne Holzman

Spring started with great With the demise of Park Shoppers new to Hampden’s Hermes Floral, 1750 W. The plant sale Web site, intentions: As weather soared Hardware, it’s a little harder for plant sales might be surprised at Larpenteur, sells annuals and www.friendsschoolplantsale.com, into the 70s, then dipped well some Bugle readers to shop for finding staffers and volunteers perennials, including some offers more tips for shoppers, below frost temperatures, we got plants this year, but there are still willing to baby-sit their selections sought-after varieties of hosta and including a nifty use for those out our seed-starting supplies, many options nearby. while they carry a written list heuchera, and a new hydrangea wooden clementine boxes took inventory of seed stock, Hampden Park Co-op begins inside to the cashier. for this year, “Blushing Bride.” nobody wants to throw away. maybe even got the soil and seeds stocking garden plants in late “This avoids wet, muddy Hermes will host an open Staffed by hundreds of into the pots and the pots under April and tries to stay current with counters, and customers having house May 5 and 6 and a free volunteers — including students, plastic and then settled near a the weather, holding back those to do unnecessary lifting,” information session on container parents and quite a few people sunny window. eggplants and tomatoes until we Jackson explained. gardening May 19. who just like to contribute to a But the older kids didn’t really should be putting them in Hampden’s Mayfest Mini- For those who still have bare good cause — the sale supports water, and the younger kids the ground. But shipments are Fair will be May 11–13 this year. patches to fill in June (or are the Friends School of Minnesota’s couldn’t keep their fingers out of infrequent, and membership While shopping for plants, patient enough to plant when the scholarship fund. the dirt, and by late April a few coordinator Naomi Jackson neighbors can also snack on free weather really is finally ready), On a smaller scale is the sad little sprigs of parsley may be advises shoppers to “buy it when food samples, browse booths the St. Anthony Park Garden Mother’s Day Plant Sale put on all we have left. you see it, because there probably from various organizations and Club holds its annual sale during by St. Anthony Park Elementary Plant sellers, here we come. won’t be any more.” enjoy live music. the neighborhood art festival, School. Sellers will set up shop June 2, in front of Park Service. near the school’s Peace Garden (at And of course there’s that Knapp Street in front of the main mother of all plant sales, the office doors) the Friday and Friends School sale at the Saturday (May 11 and 12) before Fairgrounds Grandstand on Mother’s Day. Expect to find Mother’s Day weekend, offering colorful annuals and hanging over 1,900 varieties of plants. baskets. Catalogs can be picked up at Another annual feature on the St. Anthony Park library and the local landscape is the plant numerous businesses in the sale put on by the Horticulture neighborhood, and browsing the Club at the U of M’s St. Paul catalog to make a wish list ahead campus. of time can be very helpful. This year’s sale will take place The catalog states that this May 3–6 at Larpenteur Avenue year’s sale will, for the first time, and Gortner Street, which is east be arranged to correspond to the of Cleveland Avenue. Hours are 8 order of catalog listings, making a.m.–7 p.m. Thursday and list-shopping easier. Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday, In addition, the catalog and 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Sunday. offers “New Shopper Tips,” a recipe for sorrel soup, a feature about one of the sale’s suppliers (Glacial Ridge Growers) and other helpful articles. MAY 2007 ■ P ARK BUGLE 7

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Lauderdale company believes in “Love at First Sit” by Jc Drobac

How do you get people to shell out $70 for something that straps their back to their shins? Victor Toso, founder and president of Nada Chair, says it helps to have a bit of the missionary spirit. Toso’s parents were missionaries, and he is, too, in his own way. “Nothing in the industry is better to do what we do,” he says. “Chairs don’t work. You cannot get the lumbar spine supported the way it needs to be.” Many people spend much of their lives sitting, and what most of them sit in doesn’t provide what they need, says Toso. Enter the Nada Chair. “With this you’ve got all the things all the doctors have been begging, wishing, wanting,” he says, “and in a way that is elegant, infinitely adjustable and totally within your control.” Like any missionary, Toso knows that the key to a Mother’s conversation experience is personal contact. That’s why he doesn’t emphasize print media, Day infomercials or other traditional marketing channels. Instead, he MAY 13th preaches the gospel of lumbar support at fairs and trade shows. Victor Toso, founder and president of Nada Chair, located at 2448 “People look at my pictures A SPECIAL LADY • A SPECIAL GIFT • A SPECIAL JEWELER Larpenteur in Lauderdale, models one of his company’s products. from 10 feet away and say, ‘You gotta be kidding.’ Then they sit EMIL GUSTAFSON JEWELERS down and they put it on and this DISTINCTIVE JEWELRY AND DESIGN SINCE 1911 look comes over their eyes.” and it’s been used by NASA research testing the effects of chair When his parents’ missionary astronauts on space flights. design on posture and muscle Register for a lovely 14 karat gold locket stint was over, the family settled But Toso still fights the Nada fatigue. 2278 COMO • 651-645-6774 in Minnesota. Toso attended Chair’s odd appearance. Toso’s original patent for the TUESDAY - FRIDAY 10 AM - 6 PM, SATURDAY 10 AM - 5 PM Concordia College in Moorhead “You’ve got all these sexy Nada Chair has expired, though and then headed to Los Angeles, Arran chairs out there that are he still holds patents on specific where he lived for nearly a fine for what they are, but will features such as the waist belt, decade. destroy your back if they expect buckle, pads, zip-up pouch, etc. While there, he and longtime you to use them.” But Toso no longer sees patent friend and engineer Stuart A Toso sermon about proper security as the greatest good. Spector collaborated on the idea sitting includes an illustration: “As it stands, we’re one little of a back-support system, The pelvis is a pedestal, and the company being asked to educate prompted by their interest in spine is a statue. The pedestal the world on a very geeky idea,” yoga and meditation. Toso must be level in order to balance he says. thought their idea was original the statue. Without patent protection, but found out it’s been done for To sit properly — in a Toso now believes, his large 6,000 years. position that’s good for the back corporate competitors would have “Our original patent was — the pelvis must be rolled been able to educate many more obviated by prior art,” says Toso, forward. The Nada Chair helps people. And maybe he would who holds the patent on the one maintain this position have had 1 percent of a billion- remaining concept. comfortably and effectively, says dollar market rather than having After moving back to the Toso. a much smaller market to Twin Cities in the mid-1980s, “When the pelvis isn’t himself. Toso started making chairs in his properly supported,” he says, “it “Some ideas need to be mother’s attic. Later he moved rolls backward and the back protected for something that’s the business to Northeast becomes a C-curve, which is the going to go quickly into the Minneapolis and then, in 1998, body’s attempt to counterbalance market. But when you are alone to their present location at 2448 the pelvis. Without support, to teach the world about Larpenteur Ave. in Lauderdale, there’s also a counter curve in the something so awkward and where he has four employees. neck, which has to keep the head unusual as this, it’s an impossible In 1985, Toso was invited to rolled up to keep the eyes looking thing for a small company to do.” rent a booth at a conference forward. This creates two areas of Toso says he now welcomes called “The Challenge of the stress: in the lumbar spine and in the moment when his patents Lumbar Spine” in Minneapolis. the neck.” expire. He expects a competitive Doctors attending the conference The Nada Chair products product to surface, one that may tried the product, and several assist in rolling the pelvis forward even be better in some respects. placed orders. and anchoring it using the knees. “But we will always be the Later that year, Toso brought The effect is that the upper back first,” he says. “To me, it’s not his Nada Chair products to a rolls back without any effort and something I ever have to fear. I’ve computer show in Bloomington, the problems correct themselves, gotten over that.” after which sales “really took off.” explains Toso. Nada Chair, 2448 Since then, the Nada Chair has Their Web site Larpenteur Ave., welcomes been featured in Newsweek, (www.nadachair.com) has a walk-in shoppers. For more Business Week, the Chiropractic section called Scientific Studies information, call 644-4466 or go Journal and Orthopedics Today, that cites results from a variety of to www.nadachair.com. MAY 2007 ■ P ARK BUGLE 9

The Birdman of Lauderdale by Clay Christensen LIZ PIERCE & LIZ RICHARDS ATTORNEYS AT LAW

Thankful to be part of the neighborhood I really get a kick out of I borrowed ten binoculars branch, in full view. Now we Over 16 years of experience – a general civil practice. • Family Law • Real Estate • Probate Law introducing people, especially and field guides from St. Paul could see both the perched bird • Adoption • Business Law • Appeals • Juvenile Court • Wills • Domestic Abuse kids, to birdwatching. Last Audubon’s Youth Mentorship and the nest in the scope. Again, month I got a kick raised to the Program and met the gang early you can’t program sights like that. In Milton Square / St. Paul / 651-645-1055 eighth power. on a drizzly March morning. Two weeks after our trip, It started with a request from Ms. Peek drove the van and Ms. Peek sent me a note telling Renee Peek, my neighbor, who is we headed for the Minnesota me that she had just taken the an instructor at the HHH Job Valley National Wildlife Refuge River Rats out to Mounds Park. Corps Center in St. Paul. Visitor Center in Bloomington. She reported that when they Would I be willing to come As we walked in, the were riding along in the van, one over and share some information students headed for the big student, Randy, said, “I was out about birdwatching? Maybe take windows near the bird feeders with my friends this weekend a group on a field trip? Would I? and were welcomed by a whole and, I didn’t notice it right away, She has a class of 10 students passel of turkeys on the other but I was watching all the birds. I (18-20-year olds) she calls the side of the glass. “Wow! They’re just started birdwatching and I “River Rats.” They want to be huge!” didn’t even notice it.” volunteer aides on the “Big River Then one young fellow saw That’s the kick I’m talking Journey.” a bird flit to the feeder. “There’s about. That’s a paddleboat ride on a white bird!” he shouted. the Mississippi River sponsored “What’s that white bird?” The second annual Ramsey ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ by the National Park Service to “Vang,” she said, addressing County Birding Festival will be get fourth, fifth and sixth graders the young man, “that’s the bird Thursday, May 3, through 38th ANNUAL more involved in nature. you told me says its name. Sunday, May 6. There will be day Ms. Peek’s students want to Remember that one?” hikes, daytime events and an be able to help these younger kids “Oh, yeah,” Vang said. “It’s evening woodcock hike, all free, learn a bit about birdwatching. a chickadee-dee-dee!” led by volunteer birding I joined the group around a The students spread out enthusiasts (including yours lunch table at the Job Corps through the Visitor Center. truly). campus for a get-acquainted Some of them were watching the Locations include Como session. I learned that they receive feeder on the north side of the Park, Reservoir Woods the Bugle in their classroom and building when a sharp-shinned (Roseville), Maplewood and read the Birdman of Lauderdale hawk swooped in and nailed a Tamarack Nature Centers and column every month (ego downy woodpecker. displays at the Snail Lake SATURDAY, JUNE 2 boost!). They address her as The hawk worked its prey Pavilion. And there’s a kick-off 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Ms. Peek, and so will I. over on the ground for a few dinner on Friday night, May 4, Ms. Peek had given the kids moments, then headed off to a featuring Laura Erickson, author MORE THAN 100 ARTISTS AT THE LIBRARY & an illustration from the private perch with the bird and birder, speaking on Minnesota Conservation clutched in its talons. You can’t “Backyard Birds: Hoooo Gives a LUTHER SEMINARY LAWNS Volunteer showing two dozen program teachable moments like Hoot?” at Roseville Lutheran ◆ birds. Their assignment was to that. Church, a family event. USED BOOK SALE AT THE LIBRARY identify them all, so we worked We had spent a fair amount Additional details, directions ◆ GREAT FOOD ◆ CHILDREN’S ART TENT on that, using one of my field of time at the Visitor Center and and registration information are ◆ FAMILY ACTIVITIES ◆ LIVE POTTERY DEMONSTRATIONS guides. decided to forego the hike at available at www.co.ramsey.mn. ◆ LIVE MUSIC FEATURING: After we were done, we Bass Ponds. It was still drizzling, us/parks/NaturalResources/urban finalized plans for a field trip to and we would have been at the birdfestival.htm or by calling THE MURRAY JAZZ BAND, THE MAMAS, the Bass Ponds, next to Long mercy of the elements. So, we Ramsey County Parks at 748- DENNY & THE DAWGS, RIRA, AND

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Booster club to host two events in May

by Dave Healy

NILLES On May 19, the St. Anthony centers each had its own booster and recreational activities and to Builders, Inc. Park Booster Club will host an club. In February, the two groups provide guidance to the Ice Cream Social from noon to merged. Current members are neighborhood’s two rec centers. • Remodeling • Additions 2 p.m. at the South St. Anthony David Burke, Kevin Commers, The club spearheaded fundraising • Roofing • Garages Recreation Center. The event Ardith Duren (co-chair), Chris efforts for the new gym floor and • Concrete • Siding will celebrate the center’s Gaertner (secretary), Barry bleachers at the SSA Rec Center. reopening after renovations to Nielson (treasurer), Andreas In addition to Soccer 651-222-8701 the gym. Schramm, Marcia Shonoiki, Nick Saturday and the Ice Cream Lic #4890 www.nillesbuilders.com 525 Ohio Street Earlier that day, from 9 a.m. Thomey, Dena Van de Voort Social, the club hosts a Winter to noon, the booster club will Erhrich (co-chair), Tim Walker Classic each year. It also sells food sponsor its annual Soccer and Tim Wriedt (vice chair). at the Fourth of July celebration Saturday. The purpose of the at Langford Park. Until recently, the Langford St. Anthony Park Booster Club and South St. Anthony rec is to support neighborhood social MAY 2007 ■ P ARK BUGLE 11

No bones about it by Kristi Curry Rogers

This has been a big month for had been associated only with The team passed their major paleontological discoveries. birds. The discovery suggested a samples on to an expert named I was planning to write this way of identifying the gender of John Asara, who used a month’s column about an that particular T. rex specimen, technique called mass Celebrating Art & Faith important new look at the and it provided new insight on spectrometry to identify the evolution of mammals following the reproductive biology of sequence of amino acids in the Gifts that will bless Mom! the dinosaur extinction event that Tyrannosaurus. T. rex collagen. 2309 Como Avenue / St. Paul / 651-486-8990 marked the end of the Cretaceous That discovery alone was Asara found the amino acid Hrs: Mon, Tues, Wed. & Sat. 10:00am - 6:00pm / Thurs & Fri. 10:00am - 7:30pm / Closed Sun period, but even bigger dinosaur amazingly cool, but Mary took it sequences for seven fragments of vbgallery.com / ashbachdesigns.com news has supplanted that article. a step further. She demineralized the T. rex collagen and was thus Stay tuned for the mammal story the medullary bone in a chemical able to compare them directly to next month. bath and began to recover the sequences of collagen known I wouldn’t be a good stretchy tubes that looked exactly from modern animals, including dinosaur correspondent if I didn’t like the blood vessels you would chickens, frogs and newts. spend this month covering one of expect to see in a dinosaur — or The results indicated that the biggest paleontological shake- in a bird, mammal, or reptile. three of the seven samples were ups of all time. The tricky problem for most similar to those of My colleague Mary Mary’s discovery of soft, stretchy, chickens, which supported the Schweitzer, of North Carolina blood-vessel-like structures in a anatomical and behavioral links State University, recently millions-of-years-old dinosaur is that other scientists have published an article on her that she could only describe what attributed to the evolutionary discovery of identifiable proteins they looked like, but not what relationships of dinosaurs and preserved in the leg bone of a 68- they were made of. (Fossilization, birds. million-year-old specimen of by definition, changes the Now some really exciting Tyrannosaurus rex. structure of the original questions can be asked. For one You may remember a No material). thing, how does the preservation Bones article several years ago So, zoom forward to last of identifiable proteins change about Mary’s work. She is one of week. In order to figure out how the way we understand the only people on earth who has those soft parts might have been fossilization? made a career of looking deep preserved, Mary and her Another question some inside dinosaur bones for colleagues subjected the tissue to people have asked is whether we preserved soft parts, and she hit an assortment of mineral, can clone a dinosaur, like in the jackpot when analyzing a molecular and chemical analyses. Jurassic Park. The answer to that femur of T. rex collected from the Their tests revealed tiny one is still no (thank goodness). Hell Creek Formation in amounts of what looked like The sequences that have been Montana. collagen — the stretchy protein found are nowhere near Her initial discovery, in that makes bones slightly complete. 2005, yielded two really flexible. Collagen is relatively Besides, who needs to clone interesting pieces of information. easy to chemically identify and is fossil dinosaurs when there are First, she observed a strange a pretty tough protein to modern ones all around us kind of bone lining the marrow degrade. anyway? cavity of a well-preserved specimen of T. rex. She characterized this as “medullary bone,” a type of bone until then only known from female birds laying eggs. Medullary bone is a blood- rich type of bone that allows for a rapid mobilization of calcium as eggs are being produced. It is reabsorbed by the body quickly and is thus a very temporary tissue in the body. To find it in T. rex was interesting because previously it Looking for a great family school? At Holy Childhood, children come first! • Grades K-8 • Class size of 15 or less • Safe, nurturing environment • In-parish tuition for neighboring Catholic parishes with no school Holy Childhood School Quality Education Since 1947 651-644-2791, ext. 307 / www.holychildhoodparish.org 1435 Midway Parkway at Pascal Street (Between Como Park and the State Fair grounds to the west) 12 P ARK BUGLE ■ MAY 2007

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Getting more than you bargained for at the Farmer’s Market by Jean Larson

In the curl of my left arm, atop a cultivated flatlands at the crosses the divide between animal nine-month pregnant belly, “mountain’s” feet. The “Poor and human. You feel alive. nested a pumpkin, a jar of honey, Farm” first occupied what is now Yes, S. Hermes and H.R. a head of cauliflower, a bunch of the State Fairgrounds. Gibbs would be proud of Falcon Dr. Todd Grossmann, DDS carrots and a bouquet of mums. Eventually, S. Hermes Heights. They would praise its My right arm was taut became Hermes Floral, spreading John-Deere-colored monuments 644-3685 behind me, attached to my three- down the avenue alongside Rose to its farm legacy, and the glass- year-old son, sticky-faced from Hill Nursery and Lindig Floral. paned signs heralding its Dr. Paul Kirkegaard, DDS the free honey-spread bread just Hermes moved across the greenhouse history. They would sampled. I had gone overboard, street and east in the 1970s, celebrate the Minnesotans who 644-9216 forgetting we’d ridden the bus to leaving the sprawling grid of still make their livelihoods giving the St. Paul Farmer’s Market. crusty greenhouses, dirt roads and us fresh produce. Your neighbors in St. Anthony Park I still contend that running nursery maples to become a series One Tuesday last fall, I to catch the bus that day, veggies of houses on Prior, Summer and rushed to the Farmer’s Market on and toddler in tow, induced labor Autumn Streets, along with space my lunch hour, hoping I’d still the next. for a new Falcon Heights find a few tents up. Ever since, the bounty at a City Hall and what is now Tenacious holdouts ignored Farmer’s Market jangles for me Twin City Co-ops. the noon closing time and with the joy of wonderful, With that kind of history, perhaps their own exhaustion, 2278 Como Avenue / St. Paul excessive plenty. Not toy-store what better place could there be and I left with more than I plenty or mall-made plenty, but a for a farmer’s market? bargained for. sort of reproductive, natural In spring the Falcon Heights I found my coveted onions, plenty. Farmer’s Market provides area and the friendly vendor threw in You feel it at the Falcon gardeners with everything from the potatoes I was fingering — Heights Farmer’s Market, too. starter tomato plants to early two bags for the price of one. Ruddy-cheeked vendors peek out lettuce, marigolds to purple cone Go early for the best from under stocking caps in early flower plants. selection, and go late to bargain. morning chill. And underneath it all, under But whatever you do, go. They clang open their truck the tents and tables and the doors at 7:30 a.m. and serve up a expanse of asphalt, lies the field feast every Tuesday morning that once bore rows and rows of from May through October. The rainbow gladiolas. parking lot of Twin City Co-ops S. Hermes would be pleased, Credit Union at 2025 I think, to see farm trucks rolling Larpenteur Ave. becomes a onto his former property at snapshot out of someone’s travel 7 a.m. to set up their stands. journal — and you’re in it. On Tuesday mornings many In its early days, Falcon of my retired neighbors can be Heights was mostly farms. An seen striding with their empty 1874 map shows the names of cloth bags down the street toward three families who settled the the market. A line of cars waiting land north along Larpenteur: to turn left off Larpenteur H.R. Gibbs, S. Hermes and reminds me, too. P. W ilzbacher. Going to the Farmer’s Over time some of these Market in early spring makes a blossomed into nurseries and person want to garden. So in florists, and one into the Gibb’s addition to buying a few early Museum. Other farms flanked veggies that someone else grew, the road. An elderly neighbor you pick up a box of bedding told me she remembers a plants for your own plot. strawberry farm on Larpenteur Out in the garden, with soil in a low spot. under your fingernails, you’re one In time the “farm campus” with the earth and the sprouting made a home along Larpenteur, grass, morning glory and iris. The on top of what the map calls smell of decay and loam and life “Mt. Gibbs” and down in the fires some primal energy that

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Arts Events Painting, photography, Free Comic Book Day Living Wreath Class for Kids registration is appreciated. Call The Northstar Watercolor prints, sculpture, ceramics, Source Comics & Games in Tuesday, May 8, 6:30–7:30 p.m. 952-261-5235 to register. Visit Society will present its fifth textiles, jewelry and furniture will Falcon Heights is one of $30 www.lyngblomsten.org for more annual Art on a Line water be on display. Several thousands of comic book shops information. demonstrations are scheduled, The St. Anthony Park Garden media show and sale in the Fine around the world that will Raptor Center Arts Building at the Minnesota and the Minnesota Textile Center celebrate the comic book art form Club will meet Tuesday, May 1, State Fairgrounds. Hours are 10 will be opening its new show on on Saturday, May 5. On Free at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Anthony A Spring Raptor Release — co- a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, May Mexican textiles. Comic Book Day, shop owners Park Library. At 7:15 p.m., Dave sponsored by 3M, Carpenter 18, and Saturday, May 19, and The event will range along expect to give away nearly 2 Zlesak, rose breeder, will present Nature Center and the Raptor 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, University Avenue, from the million comic books. a program on shrub roses. All are Center — will take place May 20. Midway neighborhood to The event will run from welcome. Saturday, May 5, at the Prospect Park. A 1950s bus will Carpenter Nature Center, 12805 The free event will feature 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Source Como Zoo and Conservatory original paintings by over 80 circulate among the 10 Comics & Games, 1601 W. St. Croix Trail (County Road 21) regional artists, plus painting participating buildings. Larpenteur Ave. It will include The Sunken Garden Summer in Hastings. For directions, visit demonstrations each day. Maps will be available at all comic book artists and writers, Flower Show will open May 4 www.carpenternaturecenter.org/ Participating local artists include participating buildings and prizes and many surprises. and run through September 30 mapto.htm. Margarite Beyer, Gitte Mohr, selected businesses. They can also For more information, call at the Marjorie McNeely be viewed at this Web site: Conservatory. and Ann and Wayne Sisel. 645-0386 or visit People www.artsoffraymond.org, where www.FreeComicBookDay.com. additional information is Bird Day will take place On March 31, Mark Hansen, a The 2007 Twin Cities Tibetan Saturday, May 12, at the zoo, Film Festival will be held May available. leader with Boy Scout Troop 17, Gardening and will include raptor visits, chartered with St. Anthony Park 11–13 at the Riverview Theatre story time and a bird walk for in Minneapolis. The Minnesota State United Church of Christ, was School Carnivals beginners with St. Paul Audubon awarded the Silver Beaver by the The festival will include Horticultural Society will sponsor volunteers. recent releases such as “10 Como Park Elementary will several classes in May at the Northern Star Council, BSA. Questions for the Dalai Lama,” hold a school carnival on Center for Northern Gardeners, The Minnesota Bonsai Society On May 6, Boy Scout “Vajra Sky Over Tibet,” and Thursday, May 31, from 5:30 to 1755 Prior Ave. N. in Falcon Mother’s Day Show will take Troop 17 of St. Anthony Park “Mirage,” as well classics like 7:30 p.m. The school is located Heights. place May 12 and 13 at the United Church of Christ will “The Lion’s Roar” and “Tibet: A at 780 W. Wheelock Parkway. Marjorie McNeely Conservatory. hold an Eagle Court of Honor Buddhist Trilogy.” The event will include food, Practical Gardening for Tom Smith and Eric Brost, Tickets are $10 and $12. prizes, games, bingo, face Tuesdays, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Hours for all these events are who were recently awarded the Proceeds will benefit the Tibetan painting, dunk tank and a 6:45–8:45 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. rank of Eagle Scout. Only about American Foundation of Bopper Hopper. Proceeds are $20 per class, $90 for all five 5 percent of all Boy Scouts used to update and maintain the (members); $25 per class, $115 achieve this rank. Minnesota, the Society for Sales Gyuto Sacred Arts and the Rimé school playground. for all five (nonmembers). Foundation. Como Park Zoo and Conserva- Caitlin Durkee, a senior at St. Anthony Park Elementary’s Proven Performing Plants for Pots tory will hold its Annual Bulb Como Park High School, school carnival will be from 5:30 Tuesday, May 15, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Sale on Saturday, May 19, from received the St. Paul Athena The 10th Annual Arts Off $15/members, $20/nonmembers Raymond Studio Event will take to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 4, at 8 a.m. to noon. Award at a ceremony in Oakdale place May 4 and 5. Studios will the school, 2189 Knapp St. One class will be held at Fighting on April 18. be open from 5 to 9 p.m. on On tap are a cakewalk, Iris, 1339 Pascal St. N. for A rummage sale will be held at Friday, May 4, and 10 a.m. to popwalk, white elephantsale, face children 4 and older. One adult Holy Childhood Church, Durkee, 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 5. painting, games and refreshments. required for each child. 1435 Midway Parkway, on who lives in Thursday, May 10, from 9 a.m. St. Anthony to 7 p.m., and Friday, May 11, Park, was from 9 a.m. to noon. recognized for her YMCA Camps Widjiwagan and accomplish- ing our 12t du Nord will hold their Spring ments in at h A Garage Sale May 9–12 in the soccer, br nn Merchandise Mart at the State football, le Saturday, May 5th, iv Fairgrounds. Hours are 9 a.m. to basketball and e er 7 p.m., May 9–11, and 9 a.m. to golf; academic C 10 am - 2 pm s noon for Saturday’s Bag Sale. achievements (Como Top Ten, e a More than 250 families AP Scholar with Distinction); 'r r contribute clothing, household participation in extracurricular e y items, toys, books, antiques, activities (Young Democrats, furniture, sports equipment, etc. Senior Board, National Honor W ! CELEBRATE WITH US! All proceeds go to the camps. For Society); and volunteer work. more information, call 645- Next fall she will attend FREE Hot Dog, Old Dutch Chips, Coke 6605. Georgetown University on a soccer scholarship. While supplies last. The Northern Lights 4-H Pie We are grateful to the people of St. Anthony Park for making this neighborhood grocery and Ice Cream Social, held Margaret Dorer, of St. Anthony store a success. We would also like to encourage you to support the other great annually in conjunction with the Park, was named to the 2007 St. Anthony Park Arts Festival, Division III All-USCHO hockey businesses in the neighborhood. We couldn’t do it without you! will take place Friday, June 1, team. Dorer, a junior at from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Luther Gustavus Adolphus College, was Seminary, at the corner of Como also voted an American Hockey Avenue and Luther Place. (Note Coaches Association All- change of location from previous American and was on the All- years.) Music will be provided by MIAC team for the second year the St. Anthony Park in a row. She is the daughter of Community Band. Michael and Rose Dorer.

In March, members of the Cooperative Caregiving Midwest Youth Dance Theatre Lyngblomsten Care Center will in Falcon Heights collected over sponsor Critical Caregiving 425 pounds of food and $100 Conversations on May 3 from for the Second Harvest Food 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Newman- Shelf. Benson Chapel. There is no charge for this educational event, but pre- MAY 2007 ■ P ARK BUGLE 15

Rock-Tenn fuel deliberations continue at state legislature The friendly neighborhood by Mary Turck drug store is not a thing of the past This article originally appeared in Tenn, and that provision became plant foundered on strenuous would be required to make the Twin Cities Daily Planet and is part of a Senate bill. objections from the city. Current informational presentations at Our present administration is damaging the essence of who reprinted by permission. Early discussions of a new language mandates considerably community meetings, but not we are as a nation. Do not let Rock-Tenn power plant included less community involvement, until after planning and an them define who we ought Biomass fuels, energy efficiency possible operation by St. Paul beginning with two public environmental impact statement to be. and public money are on the line District Energy and possible meetings before August 1. have been completed. in the legislature, with a decision excess steam and energy capacity The bill also says the City The environment, energy Schneider Drug on the shape of Rock-Tenn’s that could be used for district Council “must take into and natural resources conference replacement fuel plant at stake. heating and cooling in the consideration” district council committee is chaired by Sen. Fighting for a just and A House-Senate conference Midway area. resolutions from the affected Ellen Anderson (D-St. Paul) civil society. committee will decide whether to Such an operation would districts. and Rep. Jean Wagenius Fight for a government that accede to Xcel Energy’s demand have been modeled on the highly The St. Paul Port Authority (D-Minneapolis). appeals to the nobility of for limits on public energy use. It successful District Energy our character, not our will also determine whether and operation that provides heating fears or prejudices. how the community can have a and cooling in downtown voice in the process. St. Paul. Don t let President Bush A community advisory According to Xcel lobbyist Rock-Tenn repeal the estate tax council, promised in a memo- Rick Evans, the Senate bill ❈ randum of understanding (SF 2096) as it is now written This will change between Rock-Tenn and the “would prevent District Energy When the High Bridge power plant stops burning coal in the essence of American Minnesota Pollution Control from setting up a district heating June, the Rock-Tenn recycling plant in St. Paul will lose its democracy Agency last October, has yet to and cooling district in the energy source. That poses major concerns for a wide ❈ be created. Midway area.” variety of stakeholders throughout the metro area and Repeal would only help 13,000 beyond. rich families in the USA The Rock-Tenn plant, Sen. Ellen Anderson insists ❈ located at Cretin Avenue and that nothing in the bill is final, Write your Congress people I-94, will convert from steam and that “district energy is still Concerns focus on the sources of energy that will replace the coal-generated steam of Xcel’s High Bridge plant. and other members of produced by burning coal to under negotiation.” Congress about this issue some other fuel. Rock-Tenn’s original plan, All the players agree that strongly supported by the city of The Rock-Tenn plant, which began as family-owned “No poor boy from Hope Rock-Tenn is a community asset, St. Paul and the St. Paul Port Waldorf Paper in 1908 and was bought by Rock-Tenn Arkansas will ever dream of employing about 500 people and Authority, called for using refuse- Corporation in 1997, processes half of all paper recycled becoming President again.” in Minnesota, about 1,000 tons daily. recycling half of Minnesota’s derived fuel (RDF), which some Visit paper. community members oppose. www.mncn.org/estatetax.htm Beyond that, serious Early proposals for a Rock-Tenn is an international recycling and or call 651-642-1904 for disagreements exist on the type legislative ban on RDF did not manufacturing firm, with about 10,000 employees in more info. of fuel to be used and on make it into the omnibus plants in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Chile. commuity involvement in environment, energy and natural 3400 University Ave. S.E., Mpls 612--379-7232 decision making. resources bills now in conference In St. Paul, Rock-Tenn employs about 500 people, at an Xcel Energy requested committee. average salary of $60,000, according to senior executive M - F 8:30 - 7, Sat 8:30 - 6 legislation to prevent competition Proposals to give district Jack Greenshields, and spends about $75 million from a nonprofit or publicly councils the power to approve or annually on goods and services. 1/4 mile west of Hwy 280 owned energy plant at Rock- reject plans for the new power across from KSTP

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But while attending a small me than seeing. I’m observing. I Bergeron’s dance piece is college in Pennsylvania, Bergeron want to know if the piece is only part of the event, which will DAN BANE CPA, LLC was told she “might not have ‘seeable’ as well as doable. I know include children’s games, a silent what it takes to pursue a career in that when I dance, the experience auction, a bonfire — and a barn Certified Public dance.” She left the school and of doing, of performing, is totally dance featuring music and Accountant returned to her family’s farm. different from watching. entertainment by Eva and Linnea This gave her time to sort Something that might be Mohn, the Shim Sham Shufflers Serving clients in things out, as well as look at her rewarding to dance may not be as and the Como Avenue Jug Band. St. Anthony Park for 36 years home differently. Indeed, the rewarding to watch.” “I’d like to get people concept of home would prove to After forming her dance acclimated to me, to my Providing Individual & be a prominent theme in her company, Bergeron began company and to dance.” Business Tax Service. work to come. thinking of ways to promote it. Bergeron said. “But I also hope Eventually, Bergeron She got the idea for the Gibbs people get excited about the idea reaffirmed her commitment to Museum event after talking to a of co-ops and organic produce, Conveniently located in the Baker Ct Bldg dance and returned to school — friend who said, “What about locally grown. That will be a big (1 Blk East of 280 at corner of Territorial & Raymond) this time at the University of having an event at a farm?” part of the event. “ at 821 Raymond Ave – Ste 310, St Paul 55114. Minnesota, which proved a much She approached the Ramsey Bergeron believes that dance better fit. She graduated summa County Historical Society, which and other arts ought to make Call for an appointment 651 999-0123 cum laude with a B.F.A. in operates the Gibbs Museum of people respond to their dance. Pioneer and Dakotah Life in environment thoughtfully and Currently Bergeron is an Falcon Heights. consciously. instructor at the Saint Paul “They said, ‘Well, we’ve “I want people to think,” she Conservatory for Performing never done anything like this said. “For example, if I go to the Artists. Her résumé includes before, but it could be fun.’” grocery store, buy food, and I teaching at various national and Bergeron said, “I wanted to don’t think of educating myself international dance schools, find a way to share my favorite about the food — where it comes universities and dance companies. things: food, my family’s farm from, how healthy is it, how is it With over 20 years in dance, she and dance — and also introduce sustaining the local economy — finds herself naturally drawn this project to new audiences. that’s not good. It’s important to toward choreography. Why not combine them and have a conversation about that. “I love dancing,” she said, invite everyone I know to a barn I’m hoping that my work and “but doing is very different for dance?” this event will instill that.”

Tim Abrahamson Maggie’s Farm Market and Barn Dance Gibbs Museum of Pioneer and Dakotah Life Construction Larpenteur and Cleveland, Falcon Heights Fine Saturday, May 19, 5–11p.m. Carpentry Tickets: $10 adults, $5 children. General All proceeds will benefit Maggie Bergeron & Company Contractor and Gibbs Museum of Pioneer & Dakotah Life More information: Maggie Bergeron, 612-220-1659 651-645-9775 [email protected]

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Heartwood by Antonie Young Hardwood Floors The last day of school at much more when they take the attending the Young Authors St. Anthony Park Elementary stage at 7 p.m. on the evening of Conference. They will participate will be June 12. Before then, May May 18 in the Murray Junior in storytelling, poetry and Blending art and wood science with will see a flurry of activity: talent High Auditorium for the annual illustration workshops taught by 20 years of experience. show, concert, race, parade, plant St. Anthony Park Elementary professional authors. sale and carnival. Talent Show. St. Anthony Park Elementary Old floor technical consultant A spring barbecue will take place Another musical event, the Triple School is located at 2180 Knapp and detailer. on blankets spread around the Music Showcase, is a spring Street. For more information, call school playground (weather concert bringing together the the school at 293-8735 or visit permitting) on May 3. Families band, orchestra and vocal music www.st.anthony.spps.org. are invited to join their children program. It will take place 763-780-5997 at lunchtime for hot dogs and May 24, with two performances: Chelsea Heights Elementary beans served by the lunchroom 2:30 and 7:00 p.m. continues to explore African and staff. Band teacher Anita African American art with Young Stefan Breidenbach / Artisan McLaughlin will direct students Audiences of Minnesota through ISDA - References - Insured Running Club is underway. in regular and honors band, its Arts for All — Arts 25 Students are training with the orchestra teacher John Middleton Program. support of parents and teachers to will direct the school orchestra, One of nine St. Paul Public run in the Melpomene One-Mile and vocal music specialist Brad Schools that received a $5,000 Kid’s Run on Saturday morning, Ollmann will direct students in Arts 25 award in 2006–2007, the May 5. grades 4–6 in a vocal music Chelsea Heights project includes This is the 25th annual program. performances and workshops that Melpomene Run/Walk for Every explore African and African Body. Melpomene, an The Hullabaloos from American art forms. organization named for the first St. Anthony Park Elementary will The Arts for All — Arts 25 SOURCE woman to run the marathon in compete against students from Program is funded by St. Paul Greece in 1896, works to help across the United States and Public Schools. Arts 25 projects women and girls achieve more than 10 countries and are designed to stimulate adequate nutrition, physical provinces at the Destination students’ imaginations and activity, rest and personal safety. ImagiNation Global Finals, May expand their understanding of COMICS 23–26, in Knoxville, Tennessee. the arts. Projects encourage long- One hundred sixty volunteers The team of seven fifth- term partnerships between join the school staff in organizing graders includes Abbie Larson- schools and the local arts the annual Spring Carnival. This Barker, Viola Holman, Rachel community. & 1601GAMES West Larpenteur Avenue popular event draws many Hausman, Martha Torstenson, Young Audiences of (Northwest Corner of Snelling & Larpenteur Avenue) alumni as well as members of the Olivia Swartz, Emma Eubanks Minnesota is in its 43rd year of Falcon Heights, MN 55113 community. and Elhaim Adem Ibrahim. Team providing arts-in-education This year’s version will managers are fourth-grade programs for students, families Phone 651-645-0386 feature a cakewalk, popwalk and teacher Nancy Hausman and her and communities in Minnesota www.sourcecandg.com white elephant sale. High school husband, Matt. and western Wisconsin. It is a students will paint faces and The team worked their way chapter of Young Audiences, Inc., Open 10:00am to 9:00pm create colorful hair-dos. There through several levels of compet- a nationally recognized arts- Monday-Saturday & Noon - 6:00 pm Sunday! will be games for all ages, such as ition in order to win a shot at the education provider. the sponge toss, operated by sixth biggest challenge of them all: the Upcoming Chelsea Heights graders raising money for their Global Finals. The 8,000 Arts 25 performances will feature annual field trip to the Wolf participants that will proceed to a variety of art forms and Ridge Environmental Learning Global Finals emerged from a cultures, from Africa to America. Center. field of 350,000 participants. Universal Dance Destiny will Come Home to St. Anthony Park Everyone is welcome on The Destination present “From Native West Friday, May 4, from 5:30 to ImagiNation program runs African Dance to Modern 8:30 p.m. annually and presents students American Hip Hop,” with a NEW PRICE! working in teams of up to seven company of six dancers and The annual School Patrol Parade with the opportunity to choose drummers, on May 3. and Picnic, organized by the from five mind-bending team In addition to the St. Paul Schools and St. Paul challenges. Challenges might be performance, Universal Dance Police, will take place May 8. building a load-bearing structure, Destiny’s artistic director, Edna The St. Anthony Park creating a vehicle, writing a Stevens Talton, will conduct Elementary patrols, coached by performance piece or exploring African dance workshops for teacher and patrol supervisor Tim history. students in first through fifth Olmsted, will march at 10 a.m. The Hullabaloos won first grade. through downtown St. Paul, from place at their regional tourna- The musical ensemble Sibley and Fourth to Washington ment in St. Paul in March and Karibuni will perform songs from and Fifth. After the parade, went on to the state tournament Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, the patrols will head to Como Park on April 21 in Chaska. There, Republic of Congo and South for a picnic and celebration. they tied for second place, which Africa on May 4. Storyteller St Anthony Park home that has a Victorian style eat-in sends them on to the Nothando Zulu will perform gourmet kitchen. Loads of amenities include: a pool/spa This year the Mother’s Day Plant international competition. African and African American room (off the kitchen), 2 wood burning fireplaces, hardwood Sale will take place near the folktales for K–3 classes on floors, natural woodwork, built-in buffet, skylight, vaulted school’s Peace Garden (near On May 25, a Memorial Day May 11. ceiling, deck, patio, and huge 3rd floor master suite with a Knapp Street in front of the main program will include a flag view of downtown St. Paul. 2235 Hillside. office doors) the Friday and presentation, songs, readings and Como Park Elementary will hold $659,000. Saturday (May 11 and 12) before recognition of the winner of the a school carnival on Thursday, Mother’s Day. There will be patriotic essay contest. There will May 31, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. colorful annuals and hanging be no school on Memorial Day, The event will include food, Nancy Meeden baskets. May 28. games, prizes, bingo, face Coldwell Banker Burnet painting, a dunk tank and silent 651-282-9650 Students will showcase their On May 30, a group of students auction. The school is located at talents as singers, dancers, in grades 5 and 6 will spend the 780 W. Wheelock Parkway. Cell 612-790-5053 comedians, musicians, actors and day at Bethel University [email protected] 18 P ARK BUGLE ■ MAY 2007

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Photo courtesy of Duke Addicks Eagle expert Duke Addicks holds Angel, an American bald eagle he uses in his educational programs.

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volunteer naturalist with the the tranquil shores of the lake on Addicks tells the story of Licensed Family Childcare Minnesota Valley Natural the other side of the freeway, how the eagle became Sioux. Summer openings available! 6 weeks to 12 years. Wildlife Refuge in Bloomington, Addicks hopes to provide a safer After a great flood, an eagle he disclaims any special sharp- way to do some aquiline nature rescued the sole survivor, an 651-644-5516 eyed talents as a birdwatcher. For study. Indian maiden, who asked the one thing, Addicks is partially He’s also planning to share a eagle to assume the shape of a blind in one eye. lot of eagle folklore. That’s the man and become her consort. He says that’s partly why he’s other half of Addicks’ expertise. According to Addicks, it was drawn to eagles. Once they nest, He’s a natural storyteller who gets a tough sell. “The eagle was not they aren’t that difficult to spot. his gifts from his part-Cherokee pleased to become human,” he “Eagles need a tree that is grandmother. says. taller than any of its neighbors to Addicks grew up in And when Addicks describes grow a huge nest, which will Minneapolis but spent boyhood the remarkable physical weigh more than a ton,” he summers in Georgia on his characteristics of the eagle, it’s not explains. grandma’s farm. hard to understand the legendary KEITH’S The birds use the same nest “From the time I could bird’s reluctance to trade its wings year after year, always adding on talk,” he says, “Grandma would for an earthbound existence. PLASTER REPAIR until eventually it can reach the tell me a story in the barnyard as “Their eyeballs are the same “Repairing all types of Damage” size of the master bedroom in she brushed her hair in the size as ours,” Addicks says, “but Walls • Ceilings • Water Damage some of the suburban houses near morning. If I could tell her the they have ten times as many • Foundation Repair / Cleaning the viewing site. story the next morning, she cones as we do. They see a Since 1971 651-636-7098 Eagles, says Addicks, are one would reward me by telling me brilliant world.” [email protected] of the great environmental another story. So I became a Eagles, he explains, can comeback stories of the last 30 storyteller by the time I was recognize individual birds from years. Once reduced to fewer three.” three miles away. They can also than 50 pairs by the widespread A burly man with thick, see underwater, which is great use of the pesticide DDT, sandy-white hair and bright blue help when it comes to catching Minnesota’s eagle population has eyes that scarcely suggest Native the three daily pounds of fish the steadily risen since DDT was American ancestry, Addicks traces adult male eagle must provide so banned in the 1970s. his Indian heritage to a hybrid his offspring can accomplish the There are now close to 1500 Scottish/Cherokee tribe called the three-month growth spurt that pairs in the state, many of them Echota. transforms them from a fistful of in the metro area. As the All members of the tribe are fluff to a 12-lb. eagle that’s ready Where Summer Dance is Hot! numbers have risen, the eagles descended from a common Scots to leave the nest by mid-June. have begun homesteading on ancestor named John Ross, who “Each cone in an eagle’s eye • Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Pointe, Modern, Hip-Hop and some fairly unlikely sites. intermarried with the Cherokee. is covered with a layer of oil,” Combo Classes, Preschool through Adult Addicks reports that several It makes for some interesting Addicks says. “It gives them years ago, when an eagle’s nest ancestors. polarized vision, and the surface • Classes start June 11th! was spotted practically next door Among other distinctions, layer of water just disappears.” to Highway 36, “Everyone said the Echota are almost certainly Duke Addicks’ eagle-viewing Register Now! they were too close to the the only Indian tribe in the world sessions, which are free and open Call for Information freeway. They’re going to get hit to have their own clan tartan and to all, will be held every by cars.” sporran. Wednesday evening through Special Offer The eagles apparently didn’t Thanks to his ancestry, mid-June, from 6:30 to sunset. realize the dangers. Three years Addicks has had a lifelong For detailed directions on later, says Addicks, “they’re interest in all things Indian. It how to reach the lookout point, 1/2 OFF! basically oblivious to the traffic.” was a logical step for him to visit www.dukeaddicksstoryteller. One Month / New students only ($50 Max) In fact, it’s the cars that may begin collecting the legends of com/dukeprograms.html. Expires August 2007 be in danger. Busy freeways are the Dakotah Sioux of Minnesota, Addicks has recently no place to stop for bird- and that’s what led him to the recorded a CD, “Eagle Tales.” Midwest Youth Dance Theatre / 1557 West Larpenteur Avenue Falcon Heights watching, but for motorists who eagles. Copies may be purchased at (Northeast corner of Snelling and Larpenteur) catch sight of the huge nest “The eagle is the ancestor of Micawber’s Books in St. Anthony looming up beside the highway, all the Sioux,” he says. “When a Park and Coffee Grounds in www.mydtdance.com or email us at [email protected] the urge might be irresistible. Sioux sees an eagle, he takes out Como Park. That’s where Addicks and his pouch and offers a pinch of 651-644-2438 the observation point come in. tobacco and he says, By setting up a viewing point on ‘Grandfather.’” MAY 2007 ■ P ARK BUGLE 19

ordly U of M student groups Wise work to restore wetland by Allison Wickler

Readings Micawber’s Bestsellers Paperback Fiction This article originally appeared in which causes the water level to Wednesday, May 2, 7 p.m. Hardcover Fiction 1. Namesake–Jhumpa Lahiri. the Minnesota Daily and is fluctuate three to four feet with Micawber’s. Deborah Keenan 1. The Road–Cormac McCarthy. 2. Gangster We Are All Looking reprinted by permission. every rainstorm. (“Willow Room, Green Door”) 2. Lost City Radio–Daniel For–le thi diem thuy. 3. The Native plants don’t adapt and Jim Moore (“Lightning at Alarcon. 3. Heyday–Kurt Time of Our Singing–Richard Amid student housing, facilities well to the sudden changes, he Dinner”). Andersen. 4. Andy Catlett– Powers. 4. Oxford buildings and the University said, so the diversity of plant life Wendell Berry. 5. Double Bind– Murders–Guillermo Martinez. transitway lies a natural habitat in the wetland has decreased. Tuesday, May 8, 7 p.m. Chris Bohjalian. 5. Yacoubian Building–Alaa Al that sets itself apart from the The water also is not always St. Anthony Park Library. Aswany surrounding urban sprawl. of the best quality, said third-year Elisa Bernick (“Family Hardcover Nonfiction While unknown to many water resources science graduate Sabbatical”). 1. Speaking of Faith–Krista Paperback Nonfiction University students, the three- student Erica Schram. Tippett. 2. Where One Voice 1. White Bicycles–Joe Boyd. and-a-half-acre Sarita wetland on Schram, who did storm- Ends Another Begins–Robert 2. Eat Pray Love–Elizabeth the St. Paul Campus serves many water quality monitoring at Sarita Groups Hedin. 3. Dog Years–Mark Doty. Gilbert. 3. West Bank Boogie– functions, including catching during her first two years in the Wednesday, May 2, 6:30 p.m. 4. Infidel–Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Cyn Collins. 4. Year of Magical storm water and providing program, said sediment and waste St. Anthony Park Library. 5. Born on a Blue Day–Daniel Thinking–Joan Didion wildlife habitat, but issues with from fields and the State St. Anthony Park Writers Group. Tammet. 5. Rereadings–Anne Fadiman. the wetland’s conditions also Fairgrounds goes into the wetland All welcome. exist. along with water, which affects A major effort to restore the natural life and also flows into Monday, May 7, 7 p.m. Sarita began when then-graduate the Mississippi River. student Suzanne Savanick Schram is also part of Water Micawber’s. Probers’ Book AMERICAN LIFE IN POETRY Group. Discussion on world Hansen started the Sustainable Resources Students in Action, Campus Initiative in 2000 as part which participated in wetland hunger continues with “Grace at By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004–2006 the Table: Ending Hunger in of her graduate work. cleanups and is working to create “Nobody knew what the signage to label the wetland and God’s World,” by David Naomi Shihab Nye is one of my favorite poets. She lives in San Beckman and Art Simon, and Sarita wetland was,” she said, tell some of its history. Antonio, Texas, and travels widely, an ambassador for poetry. “including me.” To help the storm-water “Rich Christians in an Age of Here she captures a lovely moment from her childhood. Hunger,” by Ron Sider. All According to the Minnesota problems, Alexander said the welcome. Board of Water and Soil University created a forebay, a Resources, before Minnesota was large sediment basin to catch Supple Cord Wednesday, May 9, 7 p.m. settled, there were 18.6 million storm water and feed it more acres of wetlands in the state, slowly into the wetland, which St. Anthony Park Library Book My brother, in his small white bed, Club. “Charming Billy,” by which has since been cut in half. stabilizes the water levels. held one end. Over a century ago there This spring, a basin in the Alice McDermott. New members I tugged the other welcome. For more information, even was a Lake Sarita where the sheep pasture will be built, which to signal I was still awake. Commonwealth Terrace is planned to catch about a third call Carla at the library: We could have spoken, 642-0411. Cooperative now sits. of the campus’ storm water, could have sung Near the turn of the century, sending it into the ground to to one another, many wetlands were drained to replenish groundwater instead of Storytelling we were in the same room create farmland and were often into Sarita, he said. for five years, Thursday, May 3, 6:30– regarded as swamps that were Fisheries and Wildlife but the soft cord health hazards, Hansen said, but Professor Emeritus Peter Jordan 7:30 p.m. Coffee Grounds. P.J. with its little frayed ends Stories: A Storytelling Event for recently people have understood said the wetland is big enough to connected us the need for wetlands. be a valuable teaching tool, in Families featuring the Arts-Us in the dark, Young Storytellers Ensemble. Though Hansen’s research addition to restoring it for its gave comfort on the area has ended, many other ecological functions. even if we had been bickering people at the University continue He and other professors have Library Events all day. their own wetland improvement already used Sarita to teach about When he fell asleep first Tuesday, May 1, 7 p.m. efforts. water management and wildlife, and his end of the cord Scott Alexander, an and many want to turn the The Rose Ensemble, an early dropped to the floor, vocal music group, will present a environmental health specialist wetland into a better outdoor I missed him terribly, with the Department of classroom space. workshop about music for Queen though I could hear his even breath Christina of Sweden. Environmental Health and “We are not trying to and we had such long and separate lives Safety, said that as the campus promote Sarita as a picnic ground ahead. Thursday, May 17, 7 p.m. was built up, little was done to or a park,” he said. “We want it Larry Millett, author and make sure the wetland was to be part of the academic architecture critic, will host a adapting to it. resources of the University.” Reprinted from “A MAZE ME,” Greenwillow, 2005, by “We’re playing a little bit of He said the University is walking tour of the St. Anthony permission of the author. Copyright (c) Naomi Shihab Nye, Park neighborhood. Sponsored catch up,” he said, “but we’re fortunate to have the wetland on whose most recent book of poetry is “You and Yours,” BOA gaining good ground.” campus. by the Friends of the St. Paul Editions, Ltd., 2005. This weekly column is supported by The Public Library. The wetland catches the “Not many college campuses Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress, and the storm water from the entire would have a bona fide wooded Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. St. Paul campus, said Alexander, wetland,” he said. Book Sale This column does not accept unsolicited poetry. A sale of used books will be held at St. Anthony Park Library on June 2 during the annual Arts Festival. Friends and neighbors may donate used books through May 30. Leave books at the Community Room door on the Park Bugle lower level, in clearly marked bags or boxes. No textbooks Proudly serving our coummunity please. Proceeds from the sale benefit St. Paul Public Libraries. since 1974 20 P ARK BUGLE ■ MAY 2007 May Arts Natalia Zuckerman & Craig Cardiff Goldstein Museum of Design Music May 10, 7:30pm 240 McNeal Hall Congratulations to 1985 Buford Ave. Coffee Grounds Cliff Eberhardt 612-624-7434 1579 Hamline Ave. May 12, 8pm our 2007 Grantees! 644-9959, 373-2600 Affordable Housing: Designing an Como Park high School American Asset Real Book Jazz 740 W. Rose Ave., 293-8800 ❖ IFP Minnesota Every Monday, 7:30pm Leading from Policy to Practice: Choir Concert Affordable Housing in Minnesota ❖ Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Bill Cagley's Roots Music Showcase May 17, 7pm Through July 1, 2007 ❖ Every other Thursday, 7pm Murray Junior High School Murray Junior high Northstar Watercolor ❖ Music in the Park Series Open Mic with Bill Hammond 2200 Buford Ave., 293-8740 Society ❖ Park Bugle Every other Sunday, 6pm Orchestra Festival Fine Arts Building, State Fairgrounds ❖ St. Anthony Park Community Council The Mamas May 17, 7pm Art on a Line. Water media show/sale ❖ St. Anthony Park Block Nurse Program May 4, 8pm Spring Concert May 18-20 May 24, 7pm ❖ St. Anthony Park Elementary School David Hanners & Bronwin Williams St. Paul Student Center May 5, 8pm ❖ St. Matthew’s Tutoring Program St. Anthony Park Lutheran University of Minnesota Church 612-625-0214 ❖ St. Paul Vocal Forum Cold Fusion Sax Quartet May 11, 8pm 2323 Como Ave., 645-0371 ❖ “Wicked Matter” St. Anthony Park Booster Club www.saplc.org U of M sculpture faculty and Greenwood Tree graduate students May 12, 8pm “Make Your Life a Song to God” Community support through the Foundation Concert featuring 75 singers in the Through May 17 The Gleason Brothers church’s four children's choirs Paul Whitney Larson Art Gallery helps these important organizations care for May 18, 8pm May 20, 4pm Undercroft Gallery our kids, our seniors, our arts, and our future. Directors: Molly Breen, Mari Lazy Red St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Espeland and Becky Swanson May 19, 8pm 2136 Carter Ave., 645-3058 Roger Anderson Trio Diana Eicher May 25, 8pm Visual Arts Through June 1 Richard Griffith (solo lute) May 26, 8pm Anodyne Artist Company 825 Carleton St., 642-1684 Performing Kindermelodies Musical Story Time Arts May 29, 11am Art … what is it? Each third Thursday Ginkgo Coffeehouse Como Park High School Doors at 7pm 740 W. Rose Ave., 293-8800 721 N. Snelling Ave., 645-2677 Performance starts 7:30pm After the Rain Bluegrass and Oldtime Jam Session St. Anthony Park Lutheran May 3-5 St. Paul, MN 55108 April 25, 7pm Church 651/641-1455 2323 Como Ave., 645-0371 Open Stage www.sapfoundation.org First and third Wednesdays Robyn Sand Anderson 6pm sign-up April 15-May 20

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• Park Press, Inc. board meeting, St. Anthony Park Bank meeting 25 Friday room, 7 a.m. • This weekend, 15 percent of purchases at Linder's Garden Center • St. Anthony Park Block Nurse or Flower Marts today will be Program board of directors meeting, donated to the Gibbs Museum of St. Anthony Park United Methodist Pioneer and Dakotah Life. For Church library, 7 p.m. May information, call 646-8629 or visit • Join the Falconers for 500 and www.rchs.com. cribbage at 1 p.m. at Falcon Heights • Falcon Heights recycling. City Hall. • Lauderdale recycling. Calendar 26 Saturday 15 Tuesday • Book sale, St. Matthew’s Episcopal • Chair exercise classes at Seal Hi- • Boy Scouts, St. Anthony Park Church, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 1 Tuesday • Last SAPSA meeting for the school Rise, 825 Seal St. Every Monday United Church of Christ, 7 p.m. • Linder's Weekend of Fundraising. • Parent Conferences at Murray Jr. and Thursday at 12:30 p.m. These Every Monday. year, 6:30-8 p.m. at St. Anthony High, 3:30-6:30 p.m. classes are free to all area seniors, Park Elementary. but pre-registration is necessary. Call • Chair exercise classes at Seal Hi- • Tot Time (for 5-year-olds and Rise, 825 Seal St. Every Monday and • District 10 board meeting. Call 27 Sunday 642-9052 to preregister. 644-3889 for details. younger), Langford Park Rec Center Thursday at 12:30 p.m. • Linder's Weekend of Fundraising. (298-5765), 10 a.m.-noon. Every • St. Anthony Park Community • Como Park recycling. Every Tuesday. Council Land Use Committee, South St. Anthony Rec Center, 890 Monday. 16 Wednesday • Toastmasters (645-6675), Cromwell, 7 p.m. 28 Monday training in effective speaking, Hewlett • Free in-store wine sampling at The • Memorial Day: No school. Packard, Broadway & 280, 7:35- 8 Tuesday Little Wine Shoppe (2236 Carter 8:35 a.m. Every Tuesday. Ave.) from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Must • Linder's Weekend of Fundraising. 4 Friday • St. Anthony Park Elementary be 21 or older to attend. All • St. Anthony Park Garden Club, • “Arts Off Raymond,” artist studios School Patrol Parade and Picnic, featured wines are 10 percent off • Join the Falconers for 500 and St. Anthony Park Library, 6:30 p.m. along University Avenue between the downtown St. Paul and Como Park. during the tasting. cribbage at 1 p.m. at Falcon Heights Parade at 10 a.m., Sibley and Fourth. City Hall. Midway and Prospect Park, 5-9 • St. Anthony Park Booster Club, 2 Wednesday p.m. www.artsoffraymond.org • Lauderdale City Council, City Hall, Langford Park, 7 p.m. • Spring Carnival at St. Anthony 1891 Walnut St., 7:30 p.m. 29 Tuesday • Free in-store wine sampling at The Park Elementary School, 5:30 - Little Wine Shoppe (2236 Carter 8:30 p.m. All are welcome. 18 Friday • Red Cross Blood Drive, 3-8 p.m. Ave.) from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Must 9 Wednesday at St. Anthony Park Lutheran be 21 or older to attend. All • Story Time for preschoolers ages • St. Anthony Park Elementary Church, 2323 Como Ave W. Call featured wines are 10 percent off 3-5, 10:30 a.m., St. Anthony Park • Falcon Heights City Council, City School Talent Show, 7 p.m., Murray for appointment: Shelley (645- during the tasting. Library. Hall, 2077 Larpenteur Ave., 7 p.m. Junior High auditorium. 4373) or church office (645- 0371). • Leisure Center for Seniors • Senior Citizen Fun Group (gym, • Story Time for preschoolers ages (603-8946), St. Anthony Park bowling and darts), SSA Rec Center, 10 Thursday 3-5, 10:30 a.m. at St. Anthony • Lauderdale recycling. United Methodist Church, 9 a.m.- 890 Cromwell, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Park Library. 1 p.m. Lunch reservations by Every Friday. • Full Council Meeting, St. Anthony Monday. Every Wednesday. Free Park Community Council, South St. 31 Thursday blood pressure clinic by the Anthony Rec Center, 890 Cromwell, 22 Tuesday St. Anthony Park Block Nurse 5 Saturday 7 p.m. • School Carnival, Como Park Program 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at • Lauderdale City Council, City Hall, Elementary School, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 11 a.m. • “Arts Off Raymond,” artist studios 1891 Walnut St., 7:30 p.m. along University Avenue between the • St. Anthony Park recycling. Every Midway and Prospect Park, 10 a.m.- 11 Friday Items for the June Community Calendar Wednesday. 5 p.m. www.artsoffraymond.org • SAPSA Plant Sale, SAP Elementary 23 Wednesday must be submitted to the Bugle office playground, 3-6:30 p.m. • Free Comic Book Day. Source • Falcon Heights City Council, City by 6 p.m., Friday, May 18. Comics & Games, 10 a.m.-noon. • Story Time for preschoolers ages Hall, 2077 Larpenteur Ave., 7 p.m. 3 Thursday 3-5, 10:30 a.m. at St. Anthony Park • Nocturnal Bowling (612-625- • Parent Conferences at Murray Jr. Library. • St. Anthony Park Community 5246),10:30 p.m.-5 a.m. at the High, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Council Environment Committee, SSA Gopher Spot, St. Paul Student • Falcon Heights recycling. Rec Center, 890 Cromwell, 7 p.m. • St. Anthony Park Elementary Center, 2017 Buford Ave., St. Paul Spring BBQ for families on the Campus. Every Saturday. playground. 12 Saturday 24 Thursday • Tot Time (for 5-year-olds and 7 Monday • SAPSA Plant Sale, SAP Elementary • Spring Music Concert at Murray younger), South St. Anthony Rec playground, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Junior High. Center (298-5765), 10 a.m.-noon. • Neighbors for Peace planning Every Thursday. meeting, 7 p.m. at Karen Lilley's • St. Anthony Park Elementary home, 2079 Dudley Avenue, 644- Band/Orchestra/Vocal Music Concert • Toastmasters (649-5162), 14 Monday 3927. All are welcome. 2:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. U.S. Forest Service, 1992 Folwell • SAP Elementary Site Council Ave., St. Paul Campus, 11:30 a.m.- • AA, St. Anthony Park Lutheran meeting, 5-6:30 p.m. at the school. 12:30 p.m. Every Thursday. Church (644-0809), 8 p.m. Every Monday.

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Minnesota Senior Federation LIVES LIVED Spring Convention May 5, 2007 Saturday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Earle Brown Heritage Center / Brooklyn Center Robert H. Gruber, Jr. His funeral service was April Heights, died April 3, 2007. She Robert H. Gruber, Jr., age 51, of 21, 2007, at Holcomb-Henry- was born August 8, 1921, in Open to all seniors and caregivers. Boom Funeral Home in St. Paul. Bunker Hill, Ill. For more information, please give us a call. North St. Paul, died March 23, 2007. He grew up on Ludlow She is survived by her St. Anthony Park Block Nurse Program husband, Richard; daughter, Street in St. Anthony Park. Jean McIntosh 2200 Hillside Avenue / 651-642-9052 He is survived by his Deanna Zimmer; sons, Richard, children, Andrew and Courtney, Jean M. McIntosh, 85, died of Mark and Robert; two two sisters and a brother. lung cancer on January 16, 2007. grandchildren; and a sister and Private family services were Jean grew up in the brother in Illinois. She was held. St. Anthony Park neighborhood preceded in death by son James. and attended Gutterson School Her memorial service was Professional and Marshall U High. In 1942, held Easter Saturday, April 7, Dr. William Kavanaugh she graduated from the 2007, at Emmaus Lutheran Hardwood Flooring University of Minnesota with a Church, in Como Park. by Dr. William Kavanaugh, age 93, formerly of St. Paul, died degree in botany. Interment will be in the Bunker April 15, 2007, in Springfield, Va. After graduation she worked Hill, Ill., cemetery in May. Aura William served in the U.S. in the U of M’s Botany quality work at low rates Department as principal secretary Marines during World War II. Edward B. Stanford Call Gary at 612-770-3057 or 612-706-9319 He attended Dunwoody and for 41 years until her retirement [email protected] • Visit us at: www.aurafloors.com then the U of M, where he in 1983. Edward B. Stanford, age 97, died graduated with a Ph.D. in 1955. Jean was an avid traveler and on April 13, 2007, in Hayward, He joined the U of M’s photographer. She belonged to Calif. “Ned” was born in College of Education as an two photo clubs, Women’s Color Moorhead, Minn., March 31, instructor of industrial education Photo Club and the Minnesota 1910. in 1946 and moved through the Nature Photography Club. He graduated from ranks to full professor. He retired She joined the Early Dartmouth College in 1932 with in June of 1984 after 36 years of American Glass Club of a degree in biography and service. Minnesota in 1973, joining her comparative literature. He Dr. Kavanaugh participated mother, Jane, who was a member. married Maverette Ericson on in an AVA/USAID program in Jean remained active in the club July 3, 1937, in Hanover, N.H. Turkey. until this past year when she was He earned a Ph.D. in library He was a member of diagnosed with lung cancer. She science from the University of St. Anthony Park United Church much enjoyed sharing a meal and Chicago in 1942. He served with of Christ before moving to learning about the antiques that the U.S. Army in Europe in Illinois and then Virginia to be were presented at their meetings. World War II. near his daughters. He was also a Jean is survived by her niece, Ned and “Mav” moved to member of Tusler-Summit Lodge Elizabeth (James) Paetznick of St. Anthony Park in 1946. They #263 and the OES, St. Anthony St. Cloud; nephews, Bruce resided at 2188 Hendon Ave. Park Chapter #212. (Kathy) McIntosh of Fifty Lakes, from approximately 1953 His volunteer work included and Stewart (Kathy) McIntosh, of through 1984. many years with Camp JIM, in St. Anthony Park; and a grand- He was an active member of Brainerd, Minn. nephew, grandniece and great- the St. Anthony Park Association. He is survived by his wife of grandnephew. His son Jim recalls accompanying 63 years, Katharine Ida; A memorial service was held him on a door-to-door fund- daughters, Katharine (Roy) April 4. raising mission to support the Schmiesing and Barbara (Allen) annual Fourth of July celebration. He served as committee Andersen; four grandchildren; Laura Rust four great-grandchildren; and a chairman for Troop 17 in the late sister, Evelyn Nelson. Laura Evelyn Rust, Falcon 1950s. Jim recalls him driving a trailer for several years supporting the annual newspaper fundraiser. Ned and Mav served as chairpersons of the U of M Faculty Dance Club. Twenty years ago they joined the 1666 Coffman community as founding members to enjoy their golden years. They enjoyed travel, Elderhostels, and supporting worthy programs, including foreign study programs at St. Olaf College, immigrant training programs at the International Institute of Minnesota, the Children's Literature Research Collection at

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Lives Lived from 22 Because our pets are family the University of Minnesota and Park Service Inc. the Alzheimer’s program at Como Raymond BP Complete medical, dental, and surgical care 2277 Como Avenue 2102 Como Avenue Lyngblomsten retirement home. Please call for an appointment Edward Stanford served on 651-644-4775 651-646-2466 the faculty of the University of 651-644-1134 651-287-0178 LARPENTEUR ANIMAL HOSPITAL Minnesota from1946-1977. He was appointed director of Dr. Dan Anderson, Dr. Julie Dahlke, libraries in 1951. • Certified Mechanics • Fresh Donuts Daily Dr Jennifer Timmerman He oversaw planning and • Expert Repair • ATM 1136 Larpenteur Ave. W., St. Paul, 651-487-3712 construction of Wilson Library, • Tires • Copier Hours: Monday - Thursday 7:30 am - 7:00 pm, Friday 7:30 am - 6:00 pm, Saturday 8:00 am - Noon. the Biomedical Library and the Agriculture Library. He was a • Brakes • Wireless Internet strong supporter of the library’s • Batteries • Diesel special collections, attracting • Exhaust • Propane books and materials to the Need A Plumber? Kerlan Collection of children’s • Suspension • New Pumps offering Need A Plumber? literature at the university. • Foreign & Domestic 24 hour fueling! FREE Estimates / Satisfaction Guaranteed He is survived by son James • Snow Plowing • Vacuum and two grandchildren, Jeffrey • Vacuum • Free Air Jack Stodola and Amanda, all living in the San Francisco Bay area. He was • Free Air • Discount Car Wash Water Piping & Water Heater Specialist preceded in death by his beloved • Walk-in Oil Change at Park Service 612-865-2369 wife, Maverette, on October 9, • Touchless Car Wash • Lottery coming soon Cell: 1996. In deference to his wishes, 35 Same proud ownership, same great service. there will be no funeral. A years in memorial gathering at 1666 Both stations open 7 days a week. thePark! Coffman will be scheduled. Memorials are preferred to Just 10 minutes away at 2190 Como Avenue the Maverette E. Stanford Memorial Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease, the Lyngblomsten Foundation, 1415 Almond Ave., Saint Paul, MN 55108. LIFE IN THE CHURCH: Duane Tchida Come and Share ❖ ❖ Duane “Swede” Tchida, of Mora, BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH ST. CECILIA’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Skillman at Cleveland S., Roseville. 651-631-0211 2357 Bayless Place. 651-644-4502 formerly of Lauderdale, died 9:30 a.m. Christian Education for nursery - adults Website: www.stceciliaspm.org March 25, 2007. He is survived 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship, Dr. Bruce Petersen Handicap accessible by his wife, Shirley; children, 1:00 p.m. Korean Sunday Worship, Paster Jiyong Park Saturday Mass: 5:00 p.m. at the church Dale, Duane Jr., Kim, Jackie and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Kids’ Club and Youth Groups Sunday Masses: 8:15 a.m and 10:00 am at the church Nancy; nine grandchildren; four ❖ COMO PARK LUTHERAN CHURCH - ELCA ❖ ST. ANTHONY PARK UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST great-grandchildren; and sister 1376 Hoyt Ave. W., St. Paul, MN 55108-2300 2129 Commonwealth at Chelmsford. 651-646-7173 Vivian. He was preceded in 651-646-7127 Website: www.sapucc.org death by a son, David. Handicapped Accessible Handicapped Accessible and an Open and Affirming Congregation. His funeral was March 29, [email protected] Rev. Howard Tobak, Transition Minister – 2007, at Zion Lutheran Church CPLContact ministry 651-644-1897 Becky Stewart, Child & Youth Coordinator www.comoparklutheran.org Adult Education 8:30 a.m. in Mora, with interment in Sunday Worship Schedule (through May 20): Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m., Fellowship: 11:00 a.m. Royalton Cemetery. 8:00, 9:00, & 11:00 a.m. Worship Nursery Care & Sunday School provided. 10:00 a.m. Adult Education & Sunday School May 6 – Worship/Holy Communion 10 a.m. There is no charge for Bugle (Holy Communion on 1st and 3rd Sundays; nursery care provided) May 20 – Worship/Senior Choir Concert 10 a.m. obituaries. Please alert the Bugle Rides available for 11:00 a.m. worship. May 27 - No Adult Ed. Call the church office before noon on Friday for ride. about the death of current or Summer Worship Schedule (begins May 27): ❖ ST. ANTHONY PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH former residents of the area. Send 8:30 & 10:00 a.m. Worship www.sapumc.org more complete information if you (Holy Communion on 1st and 3rd Sundays) All are welcome! have it. Obituaries are compiled by Rides available for 10:00 a.m. worship. 2200 Hillside Ave (at Como) 651-646-4859 Mary Mergenthal, 644-1650, Pastors: Martin Ericson and Mary Kaye Ashley Pastor Donna Martinson Director of Music Ministry: Thomas Ferry Sundays: [email protected]. 10:00 a.m. Worship Celebration ❖ FALCON HEIGHTS UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 10:20 a.m. Sunday School for 3 years old to 5th grade 1795 Holton St. at Garden, 651-646-2681 11:00 a.m. Fellowship & Refreshments www.falconheightsucc.org Sundays: Education 9:15 a.m., worship 10:30 a.m. ❖ ST. ANTHONY PARK LUTHERAN CHURCH Nursery care available 9:15-11:45 a.m. We are a community of believers called to joyfully serve God, Spring rummage sale Thursday, May 10, 8-5, and Friday, May 11, 8-4 one another, and the world. May 20 - Celebration of children and youth at 10:30 a.m. worship www.saplc.org An open and affirming, Just Peace church 2323 Como Ave. W., 651-645-0371 Handicap accessible Staffed nursery available. Handicap-accessible. Pastors Glenn Berg-Moberg and Amy Thoren, Email: [email protected] ❖ NORTH COMO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Worship: 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. 965 Larpenteur Avenue W., Roseville Summer Worship Schedule begins May 27: 10:00 a.m. 651-488-5581, [email protected] Education Hour for all: 9:45 a.m. www.northcomochurch.org Minnesota Faith Chinese Lutheran Church 1:30 p.m. Sunday Services: Worship 9:45 a.m., Education for all ages 11:00 a.m. We are welcoming and accessible to all. ❖ ❖ ST. MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH - ELCA The Rev. Blair Pogue, Rector 1744 Walnut (at Ione) Lauderdale. 651-644-5440 2136 Carter at Chelmsford. 651-645-3058 www.peacelauderdale.com Website: www.stmatthewsmn.org Sundays: Education at 9:00 a.m. Worship 10:00 a.m. Sunday Services: Tuesdays: 9:30 a.m. Bible Study 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Rite I) Thursdays: 6:30 p.m. Stained Glass Workshop 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Rite II) 1st. Mondays of the month: 7:00 p.m. Arts & Faith Classes for all ages between the services at 9:15 a.m. All are welcome - Come as you are Mondays - 7:00 p.m. Night Prayer Wednesdays - 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Rite I)