Thanks to Our Silent Volunteers
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UPDATE Spring/Summer 2001 Silent Volunteer Edition Volume 13, No. 2 Thanks to Our Silent Volunteers April 26th Public Meeting to Unveil Memorial Design for Linda Jadwin he Burnham Woods area of Cedar Lake Park will be the site of a natural stone Tseating area that is being created as a public-art memorial for Linda Jadwin, a lovely and talented neighbor who died accidentally in 1999. Because Linda had lived nearby and 2 The Cedar Lake shoreline is washing loved Cedar Lake Park so much, her friends away the dirt, which is continually approached CLPA about the possibility of replaced by volunteers and held in place improving some part of the Park in her memo- by a wall of stones that protects the ry. It was agreed that a seating vulnerable roots. area and native species restora- You’re tion project would be most appropriate, and a location in Invited! the Burnham Woods area was Linda Jadwin identified. Memorial Artist James E. Johnson was Design engaged to create a seating area Public design consistent with the Meeting Statement of Philosophy and Thurs., Design Principles developed by April 26, the Citizens’ Advisory 2001, 7 p.m. 1 For several years now a group of Committee in 1993, and with silent volunteers has been trying to 3 So each and every spring, a group of Linda’s values as a citizen, Kenwood save this special tree on Hidden Beach people (all volunteers) has built the Recreation artist and poet. Johnson Center known to many as the “Wizard Tree.” wall around the tree. reviewed Cedar Lake Park’s Concept Master Plan, as well as the design work developed for CLPA by land- BY PAUL DEAL scape architects Jones & Jones and Balmori Associates. He has created a naturalistic design uch labor and time go into the wall’s construction. Small rocks and that will be presented at a meeting to take place at 7 p.m. at the Kenwood Park Building sand are hauled around the tree to cover its roots. Meanwhile, though, on April 26, 2001. vandals periodically tear down the wall and throw all the rocks back This meeting and the design and approval M process, of which it is a part, are consistent into Cedar Lake. Given this situation, the process can take a good part of the summer with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s public art protocol. Sufficient funds to complete. have already been raised by Linda’s friends to At last, after much effort, the wall is complete. Thus, each year we build the wall create the memorial, though additional gifts in memory of Linda will be welcomed with back up again. Likely, the volunteers will return again this spring to begin the thanks. Project management and fiscal agency process. Special thanks to all the volunteers at Cedar Lake Park! are being provided by the Cedar Lake Park Association. Questions may be directed to Dan Dailey, at 612 / 377-2004. On the Horizon Special Gifts BY KEITH PRUSSING, CLPA PRESIDENT BY STEVE DURRANT, TREASURER Cedar Lake Park Association gratefully acknowledges recent contributions for memorials, trib- he notion of stewardship has always utes and gifts to loved ones. Since the last Update, memorials and gifts have been received from: figured prominently in the ethos of this T association. We have talked about the CLPA Donors Since Last Winter as of March 15, 2001 community of people and nature. Partnership has been held as a high ideal, and utilized to Mike Elson Public Radio achieve amazing things. Nancy Evans International Thanks to Volunteers! Citizen volunteers have steered this process, Bob Fine Sharon Jankowski holding a vision steadily, like mariners on a star- Brenda Foat Susu Jeffrey uch of the work done in Cedar Lake Park lit sea who use the pole star for guidance. With Mrs. Wood Foster Kathryn P. Jensen Mis done by volunteers—both groups and William Fraze Bruce Jones volunteers, there is the visible above the surface, individuals—to whom we are also most thank- Steve Pratt and Phyllis Just ful. (See volunteer names noted throughout.) but the far greater mass is below—invisible and Lisa Genis Phyllis Kahn indistinct—like an iceberg. Nancy Gibson Mr. and Mrs. Arnold It is this person, the silent volunteer, who is Bill Gilbreath Kaplan Charles Moore Jean Roberts largely responsible for all of our success. This is Doug and Gretchen Mary Keithahn Marian Moore Dr. and Mrs Gaylan true, I believe, because of a simple fact: The Gildner Ms Beth Kelly William E. and Rockswold silent volunteer cares. Every day, throughout the Charles Gleach Edward Kosciolek Chouhei Mullin Lawrence and park and the trail corridors, one may see evi- Robert and Katherine Duane and Mary Alyce Patrick Murphy Martha Salzman dence of this caring stewardship. Goodale Krohnke B.K. Nelson Susan Sanger The interesting thing to me is that an action Lisa Goodman Rhonda Kuehl Dick and Nancy Dr. and Mrs. G.M. taken has implications far beyond the act itself, Steven Gove Martha and Jim Abbott Niemiec Schneider and can continue to contribute long after the Seymour Gross Ladner Michael Nystuen Floyd Schultz individual has moved along. A tree planted five Susan H. Gross June and Neal Lapidus Ben and Lynn Oehler Mary and Lawrence years ago continues to bear witness, a legacy Mrs Thelma Grubryn in Loving Memory Ruth Peilea Schwanke bequest funds a program, St. David daffodils David Gustafson of Harry G. Wells Polly Penney Jim and Mary Schwebel Corwin Peterson Pat and David Shirley reappear year after year, or trash disappears one Charles Hall Richard Lillehei Rehael Fund—Roger Martin Lipschultz Mr. Thomas Peyton Cheryl and piece at a time. Ann and Felix Phillips Harvey Simer Regardless of where or when we are, the and Eleanor Hall of Steve Liss and Carol the Minneapolis Chomsky Walter Pickhardt Karen Sorel silent volunteer continues to participate in our Dee-Ann and Paisley Svensson community of stewards. Without them, and Foundation Lisa D Locken George E. Harding James L. Lynch Phillip Prather Pat Thompson their actions; large or small, we would be ordi- Gordon and Wini Hed Leonard and Lois Walter and Harriet Marella Toft nary. With them—who really are all of us who Sally Helde Martinetto Pratt D’Ann Marie Topoluk care about the park yesterday, today and tomor- John and Diane Jack and Vivian Mason Richard Prochaska Neil and Ann Trembley row—we are creating something extraordinary. Herman Mary L. McGee Nancy and Evelyn Turner and It is a model of community built on an ethic Stephen Huey Jean McIntosh James Proman Jeremy Nichols of compassionate stewardship. It is very special, Linda Huhn James L. McKenna Louise Ribnick Leona Van de Voort and the silent volunteer deserves our thanks. Ernst Ibs State of Minnesota Martin Richmond Susan Verrett In a Win/Win Activity STS Young People Provide Great Service to CLP and All BY MEREDITH MONTGOMERY Meanwhile, a cardinal supervises from a ends. Their sentences range from one to 10 high perch. Joggers smile as they maneuver days for nonviolent petty crimes and misde- n Saturday mornings around 10:00, around the wheelbarrows. A cheerful woman meanors. especially when the weather is warm holding binoculars stops to ask what’s going “These are everyday kids who have made Obut sometimes when it isn’t, a white on. “Sheesh,” one of the girls in the work crew mistakes,” says Program Supervisor John van pulling a trailer disgorges eight to ten exclaims, more or less. “What is this place, Donahue. “They’re paying back the community. teenage kids at the 21st and Upton entrance to anyway?” Sometimes people say they don’t want ‘these CLP. Crew leader Rick Schwoch directs the Most of the kids have never been in Cedar kids’ in their community, but they are in our group to unload shovels, wheelbarrows and Lake Park before. Sentencing to Service (STS), a communities. We need to get to know them.” rakes from the trailer. Hennepin County community service program Since October 1999, STS work crews have The kids, wearing orange and yellow day-glo for juvenile offenders, has transported them to donated over 1,000 hours of labor to CLP. The vests, are mostly silent. A few spit or swear, the park to work off their sentences. ability to count on STS labor has moved a banging tools to the ground, as the group STS is a restitution program that does not number of labor-intensive projects in the park heads for the nearest chip pile. Soon they are all include treatment or counseling. Most of the forward. busy raking, scraping and hefting chips into the participants in the program come from home CLPA President Keith Prussing is enthusias- and go back home when the STS work day wheelbarrows. “STS” continued to page 3 2•Cedar Lake Park Update • Spring/Summer 2001 Bluebird Volunteers Needed BY MARY MCGEE t the time of this writing, AMarch 25, the bluebirds had not yet returned to Cedar lake. However, today we just finished putting up the last of our half-dozen bluebird houses. We will need more volunteers to check on the bluebirds twice a day through August. For Cedar Lake Parkway Bridge details and to volunteer, call me, Mary McGee, Construction Delayed at 612-377-0630. he City of Minneapolis announced that, Although the project could have started Special Thanks do to unforeseen developments, the this year, there is no way it could have been Tconstruction of the Cedar Lake Parkway completed by the end of the construction CLPA thanks Mark Simonson for hosting bridge due to begin this spring has been season.