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The Alley Online! www.alleynews.org Slam/Dunk is only one way to SCORE Community Scores MORE! • Slam/Dunk least of BB skills @alleynewspaper • HOBT reveals PLAN! • 150th Cemetery Tale • Phillips Aquatic Update • Franklin OPEN STREET OF, BY, AND FOR ITS READERS SINCE 1976 SEPTEMBER 2017 • VOLUME 42, NUMBER 9 SLAM DUNK! Coach Karim Jackson says, “Stretch you arms way out!” “Keep them up.” “Now you have it! “That’s Good!” Clyde Turner Theatre’s In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre Basketball Camp Community Soul At East Phillips Park Cultural & BY SANDY SPIELER* Update to Our Perhaps it seems like a contradiction to be a professional Community Center-17th Ave. & theatre with a community soul. Our internal dilemmas--- Phillips Community Center-13th Ave. about speaking our artistic voices while also giving com- Community munity participants a voice; about providing our company with livable wages while keeping the theatre work inex- August 2017 Is MORE than pensive and affordable---are not separate BY CORRIE ZOLL from the external dilemmas of the larger HOBT’s Vision: 3 Years 3 Goals world. Indeed, such a path contains all Over the past three years, HOBT has Basketball! the recurring dilemmas of seeking to live been working toward a transformational BY CAROL PASS a soulful life in the midst of our nation, plan to build a more resilient organization, The highlight of summer for hundreds of Phillips kids is where everything is valued primarily as a to address the issues of owning an aging the Clyde Turner Youth Basketball Camp. Approximately commodity of the marketplace. Walking and distressed building, and to better eighty boys and girls from nine to seventeen years of this dilemma is part of being “in the heart serve its neighbors. age filled the East Phillips Park Gym the week of August of the beast.” The Avalon Theatre: HOBT Says! & 14th and the Phillips Community Center the week earlier. In 1979, company member and poet Welcomes Renters They came for basketball and got a whole lot more. Clyde Stephen Linsner suggested the name “In The plan centers on a rebranding of Turner’s Camp is an Educational Basketball Academy the Heart of the Beast” as a metaphor for HOBT’s Avalon Theater at the corner of where basketball is utilized as a conduit to learning skills our theatre. He wrote, 15th Avenue South and East Lake Street as and skill application for success on and off the court. It “To be puppeteers in the Heart of the Beast a neighborhood art center. HOBT will continue to own and provides sport opportunities for group social learning, …is to find ourselves in the great world Beast made of operate the building, and will continue to use it to present leadership, development of good decision-making skills families, races, ages, classes, corporations, and nations, programming. and a sense of accountability. The Camp is made possible people, (and creatures!) all different, working out a way to Nearly all of HOBT’s programming can be condensed by a partnership with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux live together. so that it relies on the Avalon Theater stage 20 weeks of the Community, East Phillips Improvement Coalition (EPIC), …is to work puppets. To hold life in our hands, to sense year. This leaves 30 weeks each year to fill the space with Minneapolis Parks & Rec. and Past Athletes Concerned how we are all like puppets---worked by instincts, voices, arts programming and events that represent the cultures About Education (PACE). and forces above and below us. present in the neighborhoods served by HOBT. Imagine I saw this unique concept unfold on Thursday as the …is to carry and protect something very old like a heart live music, dance, theater, film, birthday parties, wed- gym started to fill at 11:00 AM. Clyde called the group to within us, a secret, a promise. Like carrying a flickering dings and more. The additional income will strengthen order at a little after 11:30 and introduced Dequon Oliver. candle through a dark place. Like carrying a family in a HOBT’s ability to work toward its mission to bring people Basketball Camp Theatre’s Soul HOBT Community Update see page 6 see page 7 see page 7 “A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones” The Alley Newspaper • September 2017 2 – All Top of the page quotes by Nelson Mandela BY ERIN THOMASSON Phillips West Youth and All Ages Programs at K-12 Homework Help Neighborhood Tues, Wed, & Thurs, 3:30-7:30 the Franklin pm ***Starting Sept. 12*** Upcoming Events The Alley Library www.phillipswest.info P.O. Box 7006 Free in-person tutoring for K-12 th Mpls.,MN 55407 students. No advance sign-up September 7 (Thursday) 6:00 Call Editor 612-990-4022 needed. For more information, to 7:00 p.m. – Phillips West in the Centrum Room (2400 [email protected] see www.hclib.org/homework. Monthly Community Meeting! Park Avenue). Free parking is www.alleynews.org Sponsor: Friends of the Hennepin Join your neighbors and other available in the rear of building Follow us on twitter.com/alleynewspaper County Library. 1314 E. Franklin Avenue Community Partners for updates Alley Communications, a 501C-3, Family Storytime Complete program list or from Local City Government off of Oakland Avenue. Free info Not-for-Profit Corp. publishes The Fri’s, 10:30-11 am & Minneapolis Police. We will Jakeeno’s Pizza Dinner will be Alley Newspaper and other media. 612- 543-6925 provided! If you would like more All ages and their parent or www.hclib.org also have Hennepin County caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write Mon, Fri & Sat: 9am–5pm Community Action present to information or would like to get “When the great newspapers don’t say involved in the neighborhood much, see what the little independent and play together sharing books, Tue, Wed & Thurs: share their programs that can ones say.” – Wendell Phillips stories, rhymes, music and 9am –8pm benefit residents! The meeting please contact Crystal at 612-879- Sun: 12-5pm movement. will take place at the Center 5383 or email her at pwno2005@ Donations are needed, welcome, Franklin Teen Center Programs Grades 8-12; registration for Changing Lives Building yahoo.com and Tax Deductible. Volunteers who had a part in mak- Teen Tech Workshop required. Combine your loves of ing this issue: Robert Albee, Denny Wed.’s, 4:30-6 pm writing and drawing into visual Bennett, Patrick Cabello Hansel, Make music, videos, animation storytelling. Learn about creative East Phillips Improvement Coalition, and other projects using both writing techniques, and also Will Delaney, Frank Erickson, Linnea high- and low-tech tools; iPads techniques used in graphic novels Hadaway, Abbie Hanson, Hennepin County Franklin Library and Staff, and 3D printers to synthesizers and comic books. Collaborator: Hennepin County Traffic, Talia and sewing machines. Led by the The Loft Literary Center. Funded Hansel, Sue Hunter Weir, In the Heart library’s Teen Tech Squad. by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural of the Beast Theatre, Tim McCall, Dhalinta Horumar sare rabta / Heritage Fund. Midtown Phillips Neighborhood Young Achievers Franklin Learning Center: Association, Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board—Communications, Thur’s, 4:30-6 pm 612-543-6934 Minneapolis Swims, Peter Molenaar, U dabaaldag Dhaqanka Free, one-to-one tutoring for Dave Moore, Maggie Moran, Maddie Soomalida, sameyso saaxiibo adults who are learning English Norgaard, Brad Pass, Carol Pass, cusub iyo in aad isticmaasho hab and math, preparing for the Phillips 50+ Wellness, Phillips West nololeed cafimaad leh. Lamaane: GED and citizenship exams, Neighborhood, Project for Pride in Living, Erik Renk-Grant, Julie Roles, WellShare International. and gaining life skills. We are Semilla Healing and Arts Center, Celebrate Somali culture, make always looking for community Sandy Spieler, Sunny Sevigny, Jessica new friends and practice healthy volunteers! No experience Shaykett, Clyde Turner, Mary Watson, lifestyles. Partner: WellShare necessary; we provide training John Charles Wilson, Crystal Trautnau International. and materials. [email protected]. Windschitl, Corrie Zoll Write, Draw, Create! Delivery: To every Phillips Wed., Sept. 26, 5-6:30 pm Community residence by Sara Nelson Delivery; to 170 businesses, places of worship, institutions in Phillips and Transit adjacent neighborhoods by Peter Molenaar Loos, Fare Hikes, and Detours Board of Directors: Cathy Strobel- Ayres, President; Sue Hunter Weir; BY JOHN CHARLES WILSON Leon Oman, Treasurer. Finally! A month with Phillips- Monthly Alley Communication Board Meetings: 6:30 PM 3rd Wed. specific transit news, after two Call for Location. months of waiting. The Lake Street light rail sta- Letters and e-mails to Alley tion is being renovated, including Communications and/or its Editor fixing the elevators and escala- become the property of Alley Experience a world tour of tastes, arts Communications dba The Alley tors, cleaning and re-coating/re- and crafts at our public market. Newspaper and may be chosen for painting surfaces, replacing bro- Lake Street and 10th Ave S | Minneapolis publication. ken glass, and putting in new signs and lights. MIDTownglobalmarket.org Senior Editor: Harvey Winje, Now if only the Met Council [email protected]; 612-990-4022 would do something about the non-rush hours, was not adopted. elevators smelling like urine. I Route and schedule changes Co-Editor & Designer: Jonathan recommend installing a “Portland affecting Phillips for the August Miller [email protected] Loo” (http://www.theloo.biz) 19, 2017 pick are as follows: Robert Albee, Ventura Village News at light rail stations, park and Minor schedule adjustments for Editor; Brad Pass East Phillips Editor, WELNA Sunny Sevigny, Midtown Phillips ride lots, and other transit facili- the Blue Line and Routes 5 and 9; News Editor; Susan Ann Gust, BYI ties.