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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. So the city decided to wait until next our temporary web site for several months delayed until next year. A letter signed by city year. All funding is still in place and the pro- last year and for his in-kind donation of council member Lisa Goodman and members ject’s scope, design and layout, which the time for web site design. of the Minneapolis Department of Public Cedar Lake Parkway Bridge Citizen’s Advisory We also want to thank Maria Olson for Works, stated the delay is “attributed to the Committee worked so hard on, has not her years of work with CLPA coordinating Federal and State Funding, and the Historic changed. volunteer activities. Review Process.”

“STS” from page 2 Prussing and a few other park volunteers will STS crews’ activity in the spend most Saturday mornings working side- park since October 1999: tic about the partnership with STS. “This pro- by-side with STS crews in the park. “I like send- gram is a great example of the type of ing these kids into the park,” John Donahue Big Woods II—Removed buckthorn in private/public partnership that has character- says, “because it gives them a different view of the Cedar Grove area, planted trees and ized the work of CLPA since its inception many their environment. Some of them never leave shrubs, mulched and watered new planti- years ago. It is a ‘win’ for everyone involved, their own neighborhoods. Keith takes time to ngs. Dragged a large amount of buckthorn and for the park. Our motto of ‘everyone has describe what’s to be done and why it’s neces- debris for chipping, erosion control, trail fun, and nobody gets hurt’ has been success- sary. He shows the kids how he wants things closing and habitat creation. done and comments on their efforts. Inner Lakeshore Trail—Moved TONS This experience opens their eyes, gives them of woodchips, made improvements to the “This program is a great example something new to learn, lets them have a sense trail, reworked it from the mound area at of pride and accomplishment. It really has an the north to the bicycle areas south of of the private/public partnership impact.” Upton Woods. The chipped trail is a mini- that has characterized the work That seems to be true, at least in the course mum of six feet wide and six inches deep. of a day’s work in the park. Prussing comments, (This year, with STS help, we hope to reach of CLPA since its inception…” “It has been a delight to see sullen individuals the canal.) arriving in the morning transformed to a team Cedar Grove Spirals—Mulched cedar of tired, hard-working young men and women trees and chipped paths to make the Cedar who feel proud of what they have accomplished Grove spirals more visible. A five-foot-wide fully demonstrated in this program.” by the time they leave in the afternoon.” chipped corridor beside the trees now can Besides working in Hennepin County and What STS crews have accomplished in Cedar be walked and is visible from the air. Minneapolis parks, STS projects include remov- Lake Park is impressive. They have reason to feel ing litter on freeways for MNDOT, cutting grass proud, and we thank them. We also thank Removed buckthorn and picked up for senior citizens, washing and waxing ambu- Hennepin County, John Donahue, Rick Schwoch trash at 21st/Upton Ave S. lances for MCHC and preparing planting beds and other staff members who have so enthusi- for Lyndale Market Gardens. Removed burdock and other exotics astically participated in the partnership between throughout the park. Once the weather warms up this spring, STS and CLPA. Cedar Lake Park Update • Spring/Summer 2001 • 3 PROJECTS IN THE PARK Cedar Lake Pa

Cedar Lake Park has emerged as a popular destina- BY KEITH PRUSSING There is mixed news con- tion for a rapidly growing number of park users. cerning trail activities. The Hutch Hikers, bicyclists, bird watchers, anglers, dog own- n the Upton Woods area at 21st Spur will be completed through St. ers, swimmers, in-line skaters, canoeists, cross- Street/Upton Avenue South spring Louis Park this spring. This key link will country skiers, and many others enjoy the special Iwork will include the completion connect the western end of the CLT of the native plantings along the with the Hennepin County trail net- features of the park. In order for the park to realize boulevards, replacement of the deterio- work in Hopkins and beyond. There will its full potential as a place to harmoniously balance rating fence and bollards, some curb be an opening ceremony of which human use with the natural environment, its work and installation of a tool storage CLPA will be a co-sponsor. New align- design should be consistent with the principles locker. Also, the savannah area will be ments have been planned for both the treated to remove dandelion, plantain, Bassett’s Creek trail and the CLT to the described in the 1993 Citizen Advisory creeping charlie and other broadleaf river. Bassett’s is significantly less Committee’s Statement of Philosophy. exotics, as well as reseeding in native expensive. Both current plans involve grasses. There are extensive areas of bur- striped, on-the-road areas. dock along the railroad tracks that Since our goal has always been a ought to be cut, bagged and removed completely off-road trail through from the site. downtown, CLPA continues to N view current plans for the CLT to be temporary, until a final solu- Western Extension In a joint project with MPRB, tion can be developed. CLPA, along we intend to see a drinking with MPRB Commissioner Mason, are actively pursuing our desired goal, and water source be established are hopeful that with all of the current along the Cedar Lake Trail in construction throughout the proposed 1 trail corridor, including the Washington 8 the area of the mound. Ave. bridge, as well as proposed projects, such as the terminal station for the Northstar Commuter line from St. 2 2001 is the year that we Push for Cloud, the CLT will be remembered. the Pump. In a joint project with MPRB, we intend to see a drinking A new development is the possi- water source be established along the bility of a new Twins stadium Cedar Lake Trail in the area of the between the Target Center and mound. Since there are no water lines the Hennepin County burner, to tap into, a well must be drilled. This the area of the trail corridor. Finally, fed- 1 Highway 100 will cost a minimum of $20,000. If this eral funding for both Bassett’s Creek Hutch Spur Connection to Hopkins is something that is valuable to you, and the CLT has been lost due to lack 2 please contribute. of timely activity by Minneapolis Public & Carver County Works. Options include reapplying, or CLPA continues to plant obtaining funding from elsewhere. 3 Ewing Access trees, shrubs and wildflowers as The annual meeting of CLPA memorials throughout the park. 4 Cedar Lake Parkway Suggested donations for these activi- was held at Jones-Harrison ties are $125 for wildflowers and ferns, (thank you!) in January. It was well- $175 for trees and shrubs and $375 for attended, with several informative pre- a tree planted along the spirals of the sentations about past and current Cedar Grove. Included is a written noti- activities. Elections for a new board of CLPA now has graphic material that depicts fication and acknowledgement to the directors, and a good time was had by the spirals of the memorial Cedar Grove appropriate people. These plantings are all. extending out into the community. On a grand done The annual planning retreat scale, we now know that these spirals originating in the by volunteers throughout the growing took place in early March, and it, heart of the park area pass through downtown Howard season. too, was a success. New officers of the Lake to the west, and through Wisconsin east of River Every year CLPA has spon- corporation were nominated and elect- Falls. Closer to home, we have discovered that these spi- sored Earth Day activities in the ed, and many wonderful ideas were rals unify the Lakes area, passing through Wirth Park and park. Volunteers will be in the park discussed, including a new slide pre- Eloise Butler, running through Kenwood Park and elegant- and along the trails on Saturday, April sentation that shows much of the ly extending down the north arm of Lake of the Isles, 21, engaged in various activities to thinking and work that CLPA has been crossing the big island, aligned with Lake Street in the nurture nature and raise environmental engaged in for 12 years. Calhoun Beach Club area, and crossing the southern Lake consciousness. Please call for details. Harriet/Minnehaha Creek area.

4 • Cedar Lake Park Update • Spring/Summer 2001 Phase 3—to the River ark and Trail I-94 An important component of current and future planning is the development of a comprehensive access and internal park trail system. Because of the extensive wetlands to the west to the restricted access due to the 14 railroads, the area now known as Cedar Lake Park had been relatively 8 inaccessible. This is largely why the 13 area around Cedar Lake uniquely 12 differs from the other portions of the Chain of Lakes. 11 P 15 10 P I-394 P 5 R P 9

3 6 5 To Theodore Wirth Parkway 13 Proposed Bassett Creek Trail & Park to Theodore Wirth Park & North Hennepin Trail System 6 Kennilworth Trail & P Connection to Midtown 14 7th Street Access 16 Greenway 15 Bryn Mawr Meadows 7 Lake of the Isles Parkway 7 16 Jadwin Memorial Site P 8 Cedar Lake Trail

9 Kenwood Parkway Access

6 10 Spring Lake Access 4 P Existing Parking Areas 11 Bryn Mawr Access R R Railroads 12 Bassett Creek

Through GIS, the City of pursue planting and habitat projects in the This has been a hard winter in the Minneapolis and Hennepin County park. Some may remember that it was this park; this winter that just won’t quit. now have the ability to locate any coordinate group that made the first contribution of sev- The extended snow pack has made it difficult point to the level of the plat map and the cur- eral thousand dollars to Save Cedar Lake Park. for the animals, and is resulting in the delay rent owner. Our ability to connect has This was their entire sanctuary fund. Around of various spring activities, such as the return increased dramatically. Arbor Day, plantings of fruit-bearing native of the Sentencing to Service program. CLPA and the Cedar-Isles-Dean shrubs will take place in several areas, with Hopefully, by the time you read this, spring Neighborhood Association (CIDNA) the aims of enhancing bluebird feeding oppor- will finally have arrived. However, it has been are co-sponsoring a planting event on tunities, as well as replacing buckthorn a great winter for skiing, snow-shoeing and Arbor Day, April 28. Trees will be planted berries as wildlife food. Further, we are very other activities in the park, and MPRB has in the Midtown Greenway corridor through interested in continuing inventory projects of done a great job keeping the CLT and the neighborhood. Volunteers are needed. plants, animals and their habitats so that we Kenilworth Trail open and usable. may see better what we are accomplishing, as CLPA has formed an alliance with well as develop and enhance other opportuni- the Minneapolis Audobon Society to ties to nurture nature. Cedar Lake Park Update • Spring/Summer 2001 • 5 Looking Back Theodore Wirth— A Cedar Lake Historian and Visionary

BY NEIL TREMBLEY, SECRETARY recovered, making it necessary for the contractor to provide a new one. The dredging of the fhe first Theodore Wirth is famous as lake from 1911 to 1914 to open the connec- the organizer and expander of the tion between Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles T Minneapolis park system in the early involved the moving of 371,340 cubic yards, at twentieth century. Born in Switzerland in a cost of $46,417.84.” 1863, he came to the U.S. when he was twen- In his section on the Grand Round, Wirth ty-five. He established himself as a landscape describes the building of the Cedar Lake gardener in New York, planting trees in Central Parkway Bridge in 1916 as a joint project Park, and later rose to prominence in Hartford, between the Great Northern Railroad Co., the Connecticut. There he designed and built the City Council and the Park Board. (Some things first public rose garden in the United States. haven’t changed.) By the way, according to In 1905 Wirth was lured to Minneapolis by Wirth, the cost of the bridge was $46,160, prominent citizen Charles Loring, who was mostly paid for by the railroad. With some glee anxious to have Wirth take over the Park Wirth tells of the replacement by the railroad Board’s Superintendent’s position from the of the old wooden-trestled waterway connect- retiring William Berry. From 1906 until 1935 as ing Cedar and Brownie with “…a concrete Superintendent, and continuing as passageway, a much more pleasing and durable Theodore Wirth Superintendent Emeritus until his death in structure—and accomplished without expense 1949, he ran the park system like no one before Wirth was famous for promoting to the Board.” or since. He expanded the size of park holdings Some of Wirth’s utilitarian ideas may not by threefold and adjusted and implemented active use of parks and play- jibe with all the tenets of the Cedar Lake Park Horace W. Cleveland’s vision of a Grand Round. grounds and for getting rid of the Philosophy Statement. For example, he saw Wirth was famous for promoting active use “Keep off the Grass” signs that great worth in dredging to make the lake more of parks and playgrounds and for getting rid of usable for people, and creating more land the “Keep off the Grass” signs that pervaded pervaded nineteenth-century around the lake for playgrounds and other nineteenth-century park mentality. park mentality. activities. Unfortunately, when the dredging In Wirth’s book, Minneapolis Park System: failed to fill in all the area created by the lower- 1883-1944, he surveyed the park system he ing of the lake, the city turned the eastside of worked so hard to build. He proved himself an Stetson’s Cedar Lake Park, near the present-day the lake into a dump. able historian as well as a dogged visionary Hidden Beach. “This was rather a gay place,” when it came to Cedar Lake. Wirth said, “remembered for the lively episodes Wirth the Visionary that occurred there which sometimes were Theodore Wirth had a vision for the city Wirth the Historian recounted in the newspapers.” and for Cedar Lake Park. This is what he said As to Cedar Lake’s naming, Wirth says it Wirth was a master of the intricacies of about the lake area in 1944: was “So-called because of the Red Cedars that park development and had an accountant’s eye “There seems to be no valid reason why the grew on its shores in the early days....” Wirth when it came to fiscal matters. “The first rest of the east shore and the entire north noted, “In the very early days, Cedar Lake was [dredging] contract was awarded at a price of shore should not be controlled by the Board. popular for outing activities not only for the 12 cents per cubic yard, but this contractor Cedar Lake really should be a part of the park people of Minneapolis, but for visitors from the failed to master the difficulties encountered system ... it is hoped that in the not too dis- South.” and the contract had to be transferred.” He tant future these privately-owned shorelines, He related stories about the Oak Grove goes on to say, “during a storm in June 1914, most of which are held by the railroad compa- House (the site of the Jones-Harrison Home) the dredge foundered in deep water at the nies, will be acquired and improved....” and of a resort on the east shore called southeast corner of the lake and could not be Decades later, that vision is being realized.

6•Cedar Lake Park Update • Spring/Summer 2001 PARK NEWS

Website Update Grandson Theodore J. We continue to develop the CLPA website. We now have usage statistics for three months, and are quite happy to see that for Continues Parks Legacy March 2001, there were nearly 2,000 “hits.” BY JIM MCPHERSON All along, we have thought the site a good idea, and yet have experienced uncertainty and eanwhile, Theodore J. Wirth, 73, doubt. It is gratifying to see that it is being continues to work in the tradition used to share the Cedar Lake Park experience, Mof his grandfather and father, and a relief to see that we have made a good Conrad, who, as Director of the National Park choice. Thanks for your interest and support. Service, developed the White House Rose Other late-breaking news Garden for Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy. Wirth has been traveling between Minneapolis and The off-leash dog area at South Isles his Billings, Montana, office to develop his plan has been recently opened to the community, with the MPRB for creating a citywide parks joining the already open areas at Franklin history program, the Minneapolis Parks Legacy Terrace on the West Bank, and in Minnehaha Society. Among the planned projects is a stat- Park. Negotiations are continuing about the ue of his grandfather in Theodore Wirth Park, water works site along France Ave S. Both surrounded by his own landscape architectural Edina and St. Louis Park are agreeable about an designs. CLPA’s John Richter is contributing to off-leash area at this location. There continue and raising funds for this project. to be strong opinions on both sides about the Wirth spent boyhood summers in potential site at Lyndale Farmstead. What is Minneapolis with his grandfather, staying at clear is the need for another site(s) in the his Park Superintendent’s home in Lyndale Theodore Wirth pictured with his south Calhoun area. Finally, there is a new site grandson, April 1928, at the Park Farmstead Park. I talked to Wirth about his Superintendent’s residence. being considered in northeast Minneapolis, as early memories of the City of Lakes and about the original was on railroad land, and had toxi- Cedar Lake Park. When they went up in a helicopter for a city considerations. Perhaps these sites will “As a boy, I loved the out-of-doors. I liked literal overview, Wirth remembers he wanted reduce people-dog conflicts at Cedar Lake, as park work, which I learned by osmosis from to take the doors off the aircraft to get a better well as make it easier on the native plants and both my grandfather Wirth and my father, view for picture taking. He said it became clear animals who inhabit the park. Conrad L. Wirth.” from the air that a big challenge was finding an The February 2001 edition of the Minnesota When serving in the U.S. Navy at the end easy way between north Minneapolis and Surveyor contained an in-depth article on the of WWII, Theodore J. was assigned to St. Cedar Lake Park, up and over the railroad/ development of the spirals of the Cedar Thomas College as a flight cadet, then went to freeway. Grove. pre-flight school in Ottumwa, Iowa. He later Concluding his study, Wirth suggested graduated (in 1950) from Iowa State restoring some prairie areas to screen traffic The MPRB continues to assert the public University, receiving a Bachelor of Science in noise levels. right-of-way on the southeast landscape architecture. After graduating, he “One of the key questions for us landscape lakeshore, between the Kenilworth and the worked in state parks for two years, then for architects,” Wirth reflected, “is how do we South beach swimming area. CIDNA volun- eight years with the National Park Service. plan and use an area for a park without teers will be planting native materials in the In 1960 Wirth established Wirth Design destroying the thing that makes it worthwhile beach area this spring. for park use to begin with.” Wirth is working Associates in Billings, Montana. He recalls his With the hard winter, questions have been with Joan Berthiaume, Project Coordinator earlier work with Cedar Lake Park. After finish- raised about the salt used on roads and side- with Wirth Design Associates in Minneapolis, ing his project design for Minneapolis’ Boom walks, and the effects upon the lakes. MBRB on the Minneapolis Parks Legacy Society Island Park, Al Whitman of the Park Board staff follows a minimal use protocol, while Public project. asked Wirth to do a study. The first job was to Works, Hennepin County and MNDOT employ This challenge is certainly reflected in our straighten out the right-of-ways from North road chemicals more aggressively. Minneapolis to Cedar Llake Park. work in Cedar Lake Park.

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CLPA Steering Committee Second Monday of each month, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Kenwood Recreation Center. You’re invited to participate. Earth Day activities Volunteers will be in the park and along the trails on Saturday, April 21. Please call for details. Public Meeting Jadwin Public Art, Thurs., April 26, 7:00 p.m., Kenwood Recreation Center CLPA/CIDNA Arbor Day Planting Trees will be planted in the Midtown Greenway corridor April 28 in this co- sponsored special event. Call to volunteer. Summer Solstice June 21, 2001 For more activities Call CLPA (612) 377-9522. Or check our OUR VISION OUR GOAL new web site: www.cedarlakepark.org Our vision for Cedar Lake Park is to Our goal for Cedar Lake Park is to restore the lands and waters and cre- bring people and nature together in ate a new community with nature harmonious community…a goal Your support is important— through which we can transform symbolized by the spiral. Send your tax-deductible contribution TODAY to Cedar Lake Park Association ourselves, our city and our society. 2000 Aldrich Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55405.