FREE Serving the Duluth Minnesota East Hillside, Central Hillside, Lincoln Park & Surrounding Neighborhoods July 2011 Volume 12 Issue 7 Neighborhood Duluth’s History: Revitalization Plan Reviews Underway

Many citizens of the Hillside and the other three core neighborhoods in Duluth will remember that in 2007 and 2008 At Home in Duluth Collaborative created Neighborhood Plans for each of Duluth’s five core neighborhoods – Central Hillside, East Hillside, Lincoln Park, Morgan Park, and West Duluth – and that citizens of those neighborhoods recently reviewed those Plans: Central and East Hillsides: Plan Review I: June 9th, Central Hillside Community Center, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Plan Review II: June 30th Central Hillside Community Center, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Lincoln Park: Plan Review II: June13th, Harrison Community Center, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Morgan Park: Plan Review I: June 7th, Good Fellowship Center, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Plan Review II: June 28th, Good Fellowship Center, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. West Duluth: Plan Review I: June 2nd, associated with the wealth accumulated as the Mr. D’s Bar & Grill, abundant nearby forests were cut down and the 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. 2011 marks the centennial of the Duluth Farmers’ rich and easily accessible deposits of iron ore were Plan Review II: June 23rd, Market, now located on the corner of 14th extracted from the Iron Range and transported by Cit Center West, Avenue East and 3rd St., in Duluth’s East Hillside train to the port of Duluth and by ship to its ultimate 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. neighborhood. In 1911 it was established by the destinations in the east. The Duluth Commercial This effort took place after a City of Duluth in the Armory, with two additional Club was a powerful civic and political organization, lengthy and extensive public satellite markets in other parts of the city. The many of whose members had purchased clear cut process. In continuation of those city founded it in this era of rapid growth, to serve land beyond Skyline Drive for summer homes Plans, this year LISC will be individual households, as a part of an overall effort reviewing and updating them. by city leaders to create a local food supply system to support this expanded population. Continued on Page 10 The population growth of this period was

“Tense, Uncertain, and Rapidly Evolving” Housing Service’s Community Safety Initiative that turn into life-threatening experiences to the Daily Encounters in (CSI), Sgt. Gr eeman, Law Enforcement officers, suicidal attempts that turn into attacks Skills Coordinator at the Fond du Lac Tribal on the officer, mental impairment as a result of the Professional Lives and Community College, used the MILO drugs or alcohol, and so on. These problematic (Use of Force Simulator) and IAE computer contexts often force officers to make these of Duluth Police software program to give the person holding difficult decisions. the simulation gun and standing in front of the While standing with a simulation gun in Department Officers screen one or more of the “tense, uncertain, front of the screen and trying first to use oral and rapidly evolving” experiences with which communication to influence the offender to do officers deal frequently and which, on the most as he/she is told, many citizens experienced the part, require a deadly use of force (Graham vs. stress and tenseness in trying to get control of an On May 26, 2011from exactly 5:30 p.m. Connor court case (Sgt. David Greeman, “Use out-of-control person. Too, when the situation to 6:30 p.m. of the nearly three-hour City- of Force in Policing: Myth vs. Reality, May 26, instantaneously required deadly use of force, wide meeting on Crime Prevention at the 2011)). He used the simulator to drive his point citizens found that it is difficult to maintain Central Hillside Community building, Sgt. about the use of deadly force: The decision is accuracy of shot upon a moving target once David Greeman of the City of Duluth Police difficult in a particular stressful context but must the decision is made where to hit that target for Department had adults from the audience and be accurate and right the first time. Resistance what purpose – to kill or to stop via injury. They new members of the Fond du Lac Tribal Police occurs because of the problematic context of found that lack of experience slows down the Department experience electronically simulated the offender’s life: behavior as a result of a decision-making process, visual accuracy, and scenarios that necessitated the police officer or mental condition, armed robberies, speeding interpretation of behaviors. An experienced audience member to use deadly force. Invited violations that end up with a threat to officer’s by Debbie Isabell- Nelson of Neighborhood life, shootings in schools, domestic disputes

Index: News: 1, 3, 5, 8, 11, 12 Editorial: 2 Calendar: 4 Outdoors: 6 - 7 Experts & Advice: 10 Sudoku: 11 Hillsider Editorial July 2011 Hillsider - Page 2 Perspectives From Lincoln Park Citizen Patrol a 501c3 Non-Profit

‘DARE’ Duluth’s Youth Temporary Editor and General Manager graduated from the Drug Abuse Department who have questioned Alicia Lebens Resistance Education program since whether the program works or 1992 when the program began in not. Police Officers arresting [email protected] Duluth. These kids, like the plants intoxicated individuals wearing I nurture, have been exposed to the familiar black t shirts with the preventative instruction in order Bold Red letters of the D.A.R.E. Fiscal Manager that they might thrive and live on to logo across the front have chided Rick Salistad blossom and bear good fruit. This Bob saying “we saw another one of garden of individuals is priceless. your successes!” To this the long [email protected] Officer Bob Olson, the gardener in time educator and police officer has this case, has dedicated himself over responded, “The success stories go Interim Sales Manager the years to seeing that his crop of on to college and get good jobs!” Alicia Lebens kids to go on to live success filled Bob added that high school students [email protected] lives. comment to him when they see him By Pam Kleinschmidt Officer Olson has taught the that they still don’t use drugs. Rain D.A.R.E. curriculum to children sometimes falls on stony ground as Design Editor Looking out the window past at schools throughout the city of well as the fertile. Alicia Lebens where my computer sits in my Duluth. In his final address to the On May 24, 2011 the last D.A.R.E. [email protected] kitchen I can see my garden. Today 2011 graduates who along with their graduation was held without a word it is raining but yesterday I just parents filled the Arena Auditorium, to the audience that the program was had to get the hoses out to water he stated that the DARE program being cancelled. The celebratory Board Members the raspberries and the rose bushes not only teaches students about nature of the event went on without which are very dependent on a good drugs but teaches them to make a ripple for those children and their early spring soaking. If I want good decisions and to make wise proud parents in attendance. I fear Interim President beautiful fragrant rose blossoms and choices. Speaking directly to the closing this garden plot will have Scott Yeazle lusciously sweet raspberries the cost graduates he said, “The best choices dire consequences for those children [email protected] of watering is inconsequential to me you make for yourself may not be who do not have loving and attentive and deemed a priority. I’ll cut back the best choices for your friends” gardeners of their own at home. Secretary and somewhere else. It’s that important implying that while resistance to Thank you to Officer Olson and to me. Preventative attention peer pressure is important to avoid his wife Kathy for their devotion to Distribution Director applied to the plants will yield big making mistakes it may not make the children of Duluth. Rosemary Hampton harvests of bouquets, jams and pies kids popular with their friends. Lincoln Park Citizen Patrol meets [email protected] and even the birds will feast on the Bob was candid with the audience on the second Wednesday of every rose hips after the blossoms are long when he admitted that the program month at 6 PM at the Harrison Treasurer gone and winter sets in. has taken criticism from a few of Community Recreation Center, 17,000 school aged children have his co-workers at the Duluth Police 3002 West 3rd Street, Duluth. Carolyn Nasea

Allegra Henderson Letter to the Editor: No, Gov. Dayton is not Robin Hood [email protected] Bruce Howell By Scott Bol The governor’s request is an important step toward a Peoples Budget here in Minnesota. [email protected] Governor Dayton and his staff have cooperated Another step would be some cutting back on our with the current Republican-led legislature and military spending and our wars. Legislation has Claudie Washington made cuts in our state programs. Yet there seems been introduced to the state by Representative Bill [email protected] to be no compromise or trade off by the Republicans Hilty calling for reprioritizing our state budget, seen as far as the governor’s request to also balance the at this website, http://mapm.pjep.org/actions/Resolu- Phoebe Smith Ellis state budget by raising taxes on the top 2% of the tion-Calling-for-Re-ordering-of-Priorities. population. To only put the burden on the most needy This resolution helps Minnesota have a more hon- and our schools is an obscenity. The wealthy in our est conversation about our budget. We are $5 billion Monthly Board Meetings state have not stepped up to the challenge of creating short now, but could have over $21 billion surplus if we weren’t fighting 2-3 unnecessary wars. Our first jobs, as they so often claim, so now it’s time to ask Second Monday, 7 pm that, “to whom much is given more is expected.” The priority in Minnesota should not be taking from the wealthiest need to pay a higher share of the state’s poor. Central Hillside Community Center taxes. Gov. Dayton is not raising taxes for an already Oscar-winning documentary film maker, Michael burdened community. He is saying it’s time for the Moore, came to Madison, Wisconsin recently to Advertising super rich to pay a proportionate share to the state. highlight that our nation is not broke, more informa- This is not a messy, both-sides-won’t-budge situa- tion can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ tion. michael-moore/america-is-not-broke_b_832006. [email protected] One side has chosen to stand with the common html. people and asked that the people who have most ben- Major corporations in the US are making record Rate Card efited from the Wall Street bailout now step up and profits and some not even paying taxes. Amazingly, https://sites.google.com/site/ help ease the burden on the rest of us. he pointed out that the wealthiest 400 people in the The People’s Budget, proposed by the progressive US make more the half our nation. That’s more then hillsidernews/ congressional caucus in Washington D.C., balances 155 million people. That’s like 4 people going to a the budget the soonest of the major plans submitted. community banquette and taking 50% of the avail- Post Office Box It promotes higher taxes on the wealthy and some able food. We need to say no to such imbalance. 928 1/2 E. Fourth St. cut backs on our military. So thank you Gov. Dayton. You are on the right Duluth, MN 55805 The Rachel Madow Show made this proposal very track, expecting the wealthiest of our state to pay a clear, seen in this video http://youtube/rwFkuN- fairer share of the states taxes. QYYDo. Submissions

Submission guidelines can be Serving the Twin Ports Looking forward to city elections found on our website. Email submissions are preferred to By Scott Yeazle the Miracle League players did then need questions from you to ask all we would have World Series cham- the City Council candidates. paper or postal mail. Contact the Editor for more information at I am excited to see that summer pions every year. I was inspired by I would like to say thank you to joined us at least for a little while. the players of the Miracle League Beth Wagner for her work on The [email protected]. We have so many things going on in and I hope they can play outside Hillsider newspaper as she leaves Duluth. Music is alive here in Du- next year but thanks to the Duluth for new oppurtunities in the Twin luth with Elton John and Michael Heritage Sports Center, they have a Cities. We are currently looking for Buble stopping in and Willie Nelson place to play. a new editor, but until then we will coming up. Also all the great art and I am looking forward to election continue to bring the news to the theatre in the area, Duluth is a won- season and we have the mayor, six Hillside and the Lincoln Park area. derful place to live. city council seats and three school One last plug for Hillfest on Sep- I had a chance to watch a Miracle board seats up for election. I am tember 17th, the Hillside is looking League game at the Duluth Heri- glad that this paper has taken the better with flowers and I will be part tage Sports Center. If the Minnesota high road and will let the candidates of the team taking care of them so Twins played with as much heart as speak for themselves. That means enjoy the flowers and have a happy that we here at The Hillsider will summer. Hillsider News July 2011 Hillsider - Page 3 Continued from page 1 officer decides and acts with accuracy far faster than an inexperienced officer. It is impossible for an inexperienced, nonprofessional observer to realize or know what experiences and rules are driving a police officer’s decisions and behavior in each particular context. (Under-aged youth amazed Sgt. Greeman and the audience with their shooting accuracy. Because Sgt. Greeman could not give them simulations concerning people, he gave them simulations concerning pop-up and/or moving targets, as one would encounter on a shooting range of a rod and gun club. Their shooting accuracy is a result of experiences with video games, not with real guns at a rod and gun club and under the supervision of an adult trainer.) Because Sgt. Greeman holds the longest seniority – 31 years – in the City of Duluth Police Department (DPD;) has experience as a Detective Sergeant, Community Policing Sergeant, and Sergeant supervising the Sex Crimes Unit; and is currently assigned to the Patrol Division of the DPD, it becomes apparent why his pedagogical methodology emphasizes experience before presentation of rules and of State and federal statutes. The latter can be learned and understood better once the audience has had some of the experiences that police officers have had and can begin to realize that photo by rosemary e. hampton the decisions officers must make are difficult in A youth from the audience (right) shooting a simulation gun at pop-up and moving objects on the MILO a very limited time-frame and under stressful, simulation program while one of Sgt. David Greeman’s students observes during the “Try out MILO: Use of tense conditions. Thus, after trying out MILO, Force Simulator” portion of the Community Safety Initiative’s meeting on May 26, 2011 -- “Use of Force in the audience saw Officer Greeman’s program Policing: Myth vs. Reality” begin at 6:30 p.m. in a lecture-type setting in a modern-day classroom context fully equipped bus driver, in the exercise of lawful authority, another face “death or great bodily harm”? with even more audio-video technology. to restrain a child or pupil, or to prevent bodily However, court decisions help to hone the The State and federal governments have set harm or death to another; or interpretations of state and federal laws. Thus, forth rules as guidelines within which police 8. When used by a common carrier in expelling the court decision in the Tennessee vs. Garner officers’ decisions must be made. Thus, these a passenger who refuses to obey a lawful (1985)clarified the justifications for use of rules must become internalized in the classroom, requirement for the conduct of passengers and deadly force: skilled training sessions, and on the force to reasonable care is exercised with regard to the 1. To prevent death or serious injury to officer enable the officer’s decisions to be fast enough passenger’s personal safety; or or another and accurate to keep him/her safe and within the 9. When used to restrain a mentally ill or 2. To prevent escape when the officer limitations of the law. Imagine a man charging mentally defective person from self-injury or reasonably believes: you with a knife. Would you remember which injury to another or when used by one with a. The subject has used deadly force in the code applies to this particular context? Would authority to do so to compel compliance with commission of a felony you visually encompass and analyze the whole reasonable requirements for the person’s b. If the subject is reasonably thought to be context enough to make an accurate decision? control, conduct or treatment; intent on endangering human life unless arrested If you needed to shoot to kill, would your aim 10. When used by a public or private institution without delay, and has means to do so be accurate enough that the first shot hit the providing custody or treatment against one 1. The officer should not unreasonably or intended target? lawfully committed to it to compel compliance unnecessarily endanger himself or the public in Let us examine some of the codes concerning with reasonable requirements for the control, the application of deadly force. authorized use of force that officers must conduct or treatment of the committed person. 2. The office should use verbal command of know: (Sgt. David Greeman, “Use of Force in Policing: authority and deterrence whenever possible. Myth vs. Reality,” May 26, 2011) In the simulations Sgt. Greeman had the adults Authorized Use of Force 609.06 The above statute applies to the conditions first use verbal command(s) to try to make the for general use of force. How good are you at offender follow verbal orders or to deter him/ Reasonable force may be used upon or toward analyzing the problematic context in which you her from doing what he/she intended to do. the person of another without the other’s consent may find yourself within a split second or one Nevertheless, in the simulations the situations when the following circumstances exist or the second to make an accurate and legal decision? accelerated quickly. They do not necessarily actor reasonably believes them to exist: The stress under which that decision must be accelerate all of the time; in some contexts they 1. When used by a public officer or one made increases multiple times when you are decelerate, and the offender follows instructions. assisting a public officer under the public considering the use of deadly force. In another court decision, the Graham vs. officer’s direction: Connor case, the complexity of the possible a. in effecting a lawful arrest; or Use of Deadly Force by Peace Officer 609.066 problematic contexts is further revealed. The b. in the execution of legal process; or legality of the decision is often based upon: c. in enforcing an order of the court; or The use of deadly force by a peace officer in ∙ Totality of the circumstances d. in executing any other duty imposed the line of duty is justified only when necessary: ∙ Perspective of a reasonable officer upon the public officer by law; or 1. To protect the peace officer or another from ∙ On the scene 2. When used by a person not a public officer in apparent death or great bodily harm; ∙ At the moment force was used arresting another in the cases and in the manner 2. To effect the arrest or capture, or prevent ∙ Without 20/20 hindsight provided by law and delivering the other to the escape, of a person whom the peace officer (Sgt. David Greeman, “Use of Force in Policing: an officer competent to receive the other into knows or has reasonable grounds to believe has Myth vs. Reality,” May 26, 2011) custody; or committed or attempted to commit a felony Let us look at the complexity of just item 3. When used by any person in resisting or involving the use or threatened us [sic] of #1 – “Totality of the circumstances.” When aiding another to resist an offense against the deadly force; or you make a decision in a “tense, uncertain, person; or 3. To effect the arrest or capture, or prevent rapidly evolving” and problematic context, 4. When used by any person in lawful the escape, of a person whom the officer are you certain that you have analyzed the possession of real or personal property, or knows or has reasonable grounds to believe has circumstances totally enough to make that by another assisting the person in lawful committed or attempted to commit a felony if decision? What do police officers consider the possession, in resisting a trespass upon or other the officer reasonably believes that the person “totality of circumstances” to be? They must unlawful interference with such property; or will cause death or great bodily harm if the consider the following: 5. When used by any person to prevent the person’s apprehension is delayed. ∙ Number of suspects vs. officers escape, or to retake following the escape, of a (Sgt. David Greeman, “Use of Force in ∙ Size, age, condition [of offender(s) person lawfully held on a charge or conviction Policing: Myth vs. Reality,” May 26, 2011) ∙ Injury to suspect/officer of a crime; or For items #2 and #3 above the officer must not ∙ Known violent history 6. When used by a parent, guardian, teacher, only know all of the felonies listed under the law ∙ Pre-assault indicators or other lawful custodian of a child or pupil, in but also must know what is “reasonable grounds ∙ Alcohol or drugs (89%) [in problematic the exercise of lawful authority, to restrain or to believe” or what he/she can “reasonably” contexts] believe. In a split second can you accurately correct such child or pupil; or Continued on page 5 7. When used by a school employee or school and legally determine these factors when you or Community Calendar July 2011 Hillsider - Page 4

Campus Neighbors Neighbors Of Lower Chester City Government Meetings General Meetings Park Meeting When: May 26 and Third When: Third Thursday Tuesday (As Needed) Where: Chester Creek Methodist Duluth City Council Mayor’s Night January-May September, Church Meetings When: Last Tuesdays October 18th Ave East and 9th Street, Duluth When: Alternating Mondays Where: 4th Floor Reception Room, Where: Grant Recreation Center Time: 7:00pm Where: 3rd Floor Council Room 405, City Hall Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm Info: [email protected] Chamber, City Hall, Duluth 411 West 1st Street, Duluth Info: Campusneighbors.org Time: 7:00pm Time: 4:30pm Sign In East Hillside Community Info: duluthmn.gov/clerk/ Info: duluthmn.gov Central Hillside Club Meeting council/schedule.cfm Community Meeting When: First Tuesday When: First Thursday Where: Grant Community Recreation Where: Central Hillside Center901 E. 11th St., Duluth Duluth Commission On Duluth Human Rights Community Center 12 E. 4th St., Time: 6:30pm Disabilities Commission Duluth When: First Wednesdays When: Second Wednesdays Time: 6:00pm Rainbow Community Where: Room 400, City Hall, 411 Where: Room 400, City Hall, 411 Big View: Community Center Advisory Board West 1st Street, Duluth West 1st Street, Duluth Time: 3:00pm Time: 6:00pm Engagement Meeting Meeting Info: (218) 730-5630 Info: (218) 730-5630 Last Thursday Third Wednesdays Rainbow Community Center Peace Church Duluth City Planning 1111 N. 11th Avenue East, Duluth 211 N 3rd Avenue East, Duluth Duluth American Indian 9:30 AM Commission Meetings 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM Second Tuesday Council Meetings communityactionduluth.org (218) 727-8147 Third Mondays 3rd Floor Council Chamber Room 405 City Hall, 411 West 1st Street City Hall, 411 West 1st Street, Neighborhood Patrol Meetings 5:00 PM 5:00 PM (218) 730-5480 duluthmn.gov/planning/planning_ Community Safety Lincoln Park Citizen Patrol commission Initiative (CSI) When: Second Wednesdays When: Last Thursday Where: Harrison Community Volunteer Days Sept, Oct, Jan – May Recreation Center Where: Central Hillside 3002 West 3rd Street, Duluth Duluth Trails Lake Walk Community Center Time: 6:00pm Wednesdays Mondays (after Memorial Day) Time: 6:00pm Call for location The Vietnam Memorial Info: nhsduluth.org 10:00 AM 10:00 AM Judy at [email protected] Amy at [email protected] School Board Meetings (218) 269-4712 (218) 730-4312 (218) 730-4490 Duluth Edison Charter Duluth Public School District Park Point School Board Meetings 709 Board Meetings Duluth Tree Inventory, Fridays (after Memorial Day) The Beach House When: Second Tuesdays When: Third Tuesdays Planting, and Location 10:00 AM Where: Washburn Edison Where: Board Room, Central Identification Individually Scheduled Judy at [email protected] School, 201 W St Andrews St, Administration Building, 215 North Judy at [email protected] (218) 269-4712 Duluth First Avenue East, Duluth Time: 6:30pm (218) 269-4712 Time: 6:30pm Enger Park Rose Garden Info: Info: duluth.k12.mn.us/education/ Thursdays (after Memorial Day) Tuesdays (after Memorial Day) duluthedisoncharterschools.com dept Enger Park Parking Lot The Gazebo in the Rose Garden 10:00 AM 10:00 AM Parks & Recreation Associations Amy at [email protected] (218) 730-4312 (218) 730-4312 Amy at [email protected] Duluth Historic Duluth Park & Preservation Commission Recreation Commission Fourth Tuesdays Second Wednesdays Room 303 City Hall, Central Hillside 411 West 1st Street, Duluth Community Center Email details about future Community 2:00 PM (218) 730-5580 12 E 4th St., Duluth Meetings to [email protected]. 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (218) 730-4300

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Continued from page 3 behave verbally and physically in their presence. It is so very ∙ Availability of weapons easy and effortless to internalize ∙ Duration of action the many fallacies about police ∙ Environmental factors officers that television shows and ∙ Other? films carry. It takes more time and The last item, the “Other,” effort to learn the truth about the probably has another long list training and education of police behind it, as a police officer’s officers to better understand their years of experience accumulate. actions. Some of the people who Nevertheless, the Graham vs. have given their time and effort Connor court case does make one to this better understanding are right of police officers concisely the past graduates of the DARE clear: “The right to make an arrest Program offered by DPD Officer or investigatory stop necessarily Bob Olson in the Duluth Public [my italics] carries with it the right Schools system. Some of the to use some degree of physical graduates of this program have coercion or threat thereof to effect chosen to become police officers. [sic] it” (Sgt. David Greeman, Unfortunately, the last graduates “Use of Force in Policing: Myth of the Program graduated this year; vs. Reality,” May 26, 2011). This the Program has been discontinued right is pertinent for all citizens because of lack of funding. (If to remember in terms of their you would like to see the Program photo by rosemary e. hampton physical and/or verbal behavior in continue, it has become the Sgt. David Greeman of the City of Duluth Police Force operating the MILO the presence of a police officer. responsibility of the citizens to simulation program on a computer during the “Try out MILO: Use of Force Instead of spending time in find the funding.) Simulator” portion of the Community Safety Initiative’s meeting on May 26, front of television programs and Many people of Central Hillside 2011 -- “Use of Force in Policing: Myth vs. Reality” movies about police departments are grateful that Sgt. Greeman or private detectives, it would be gave his expertise, experience, contexts of police officers’ public servants who protect them. worth the effort to learn how police time, and effort on May 26, 2011 decisions. It is the responsibility of This program was co-sponsored officers are trained and educated to share with citizens some of the citizens to return the effort and by the Sport Court Citizen’s Patrol. and how they expect citizens to the constraints and problematic time in better understanding the

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Continued from page 1 in its first year was used by 25 farmers; it has remained a part and had begun to dabble in of the city ever since, despite agriculture. They encountered the profound changes that came many difficulties, such as rocky with WWII and its demand for soil and removing stumps. The industrial workers. From the Club began to conceptualize a 1950’s through the 1970’s, large plan for a local food system for the scale commercial farming and city, involving both production increased worker specialization and distribution, supplying fresh began to seriously threaten the produce to area restaurants, viability of small producers. grocers, and households. A Urban sprawl, even here in lifelong farmer and teacher of Duluth, also contributed to this farmers in agricultural institutes, decline. A. B. Hostetter, was recruited However, counter movements from Illinois, to further develop soon began to spring up, and carry out their plan. throughout the country, and here Educational trains, seed in Duluth. “Back to the land” giveaways, growing competitions, and sustainability movements, use of land adjacent to the railroads new interest in food cooperatives for small agricultural production, (such as Duluth’s Whole Food and many other educational Coop, which has endured and photo by rosemary e. hampton efforts were instituted at this time. grown in the Hillside for 40 years) North entrance of the Farmer’s Market at the intersection of N. 14th Ave. E. The Greysolon Farm Company and food quality, particularly in and E. 3rd St. was also established in 1910, in a relation to health – human and square mile area near Jean Duluth planetary – have all kept the a roof sign alerting customers to At various times, the City of and Martin Roads. This company Duluth Farmers Markets, on 14th the location of the market. In Duluth has considered proposals developed and rented and sold Avenue East and others, such as this letter, he also stressed that for sale of the land to private plots ranging from 1 – 15 acres. the market at UMD, alive and the entire product line is 100% prospective buyers, but each It also as part of the deal, helped well, one hundred years after its local. The membership covered critical time, the use of the market remove obstacles to small farmers inception. the southern half of St. Louis land and building has continued by teaching intensive cultivation Since the 1950’s the participating County and the northernmost tier to retained by the Duluth Market and market gardening skills to farmers have expanded their of townships of Carlton County – Growers Association, the formal the people renting or buying line of 100% local products to certainly very local, as well. name of the organization to which these plots. (Much material about include Christmas trees, syrup, Many challenges have come to all Farmers Market vendors this period of time and its early, honey, spring bedding plants and the market building. The original belong. The city acquired title in and for decades, successful, other greenhouse products, mixed market now located in the East 1973 (from St. Louis County) and local-regional food system, potting soils and hand-made End was first established at 6th began leasing it to cooperative was researched by Dr. Randell crafts. Lloyd Wagner, Secretary Avenue East and 3rd Street by farmers’ organizations for Hanson and presented by him at of the Duluth Market Gardeners’ the Agriculture Committee of operation, chiefly the Duluth UMD this spring in a Institute for and Berry Association in August the Duluth Area Chamber of Market Growers Association. Advanced Study Symposium on of 1987, included this description Commerce in 1922. This move Hopes for a new building on the Food, Food Systems, and the New in a letter he wrote to the Duluth came about in 1953 when a current site, to give the growers City Council advocating for the supermarket was erected at the Regionalism.) Continued to page 8 The Duluth Farmers Market Association’s right to maintain former location.

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photos by rosemary e. hampton Upper left: Hollinday booth at the Farmer’s Market. Lower left: Swenson Creek Soaps booth at the Farmer’s Market. Lower left: Farmer Doug booth (Farmer Doug and Lois Hoffbauer, owners) at Farmer’s Market photos by rosemary e. hampton Upper left: Emily Miner, an intern with the Farmer’s Market, is prepared to assist people in using their EBT and credit cards. Upper right: Blueberry House Bakery (Marilyn Wangen of Two Harbors, MN, proprietor) at the Farmer’s Market. Lower right: Peggy Sobczak, owner, in her Sunlight Gardens booth at the Farmer’s Market. Lower right: Tahkoah at the Spirit Lake Native Products booth at the Farmer’s Market.

Continued from page 7 Township on Shilhon Road, 12 miles from Mr. Herman adds to the story of the Market’s Lester River. Barb’s children also participated development that the building on 14th Ave. and customers a safer and more enjoyable in the Market, selling chokecherries to pay for East once had an open area (left of the front experience have also arisen in recent years, school supplies. door) for washing produce. Also, in order to but are as yet unrealized. After my visit to the Market, I received move this building to its present location, it In a Duluth News Tribune piece from a call from one of the true “old-timers” – was first cut in half lengthwise. Mr. Herman April 17, 1973, Mayor Ben Boo remarks Richard Herman, of Caribou Lake, who is states that the University Experimental that “It is obvious the public has regained a former South St. Louis County Extension Station in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and the interest in stopping at the street-corner Agent, Ag and County Extension Director former Experimental Station here in Duluth produce stand……Customers range from the and Professor Emeritus of the University of were a real complement to the operation of chauffeur-driven cook for the elite families to Minnesota. Mr. Herman talked about the the Farmers Market. the organic food faddists.” relationship of the Farmers Market to the back “If you grow it or make it, you can sell it Doug and Lois Hoffbauer are among the to the land movements, as they have come and at the Duluth Farmers Market.” This was “oldest” (28 years) farmers selling their gone throughout his lifetime, in particular, highlighted by Richard Herman, and it produce (and free range chickens) at the the Jackson Project, or Duluth Homesteads remains true today and also is central in the market, which operates on Saturdays and project, of the 1930’s. This project involved Market’s appeal to the public. Wednesdays, from 7:00 a.m. until noon. the creation of 84 fortress- like, brick homes The Market is open Wednesdays and They grow tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, built during the New Deal era in the 1930’s Sundays, 7:00 a.m. to noon. The Duluth rhubarb, sweet corn, potatoes, cucumbers, in Hermantown, still standing sturdily on Farmers’ Market website - (operated by Lois apples, winter squash, pumpkin, and broccoli the west side of Stebner Road, just south of and Doug Hoffbauer) announces the peak on their 12 acre garden in the midway area. Gordy’s Market. Mr. Herman old me that of the season is usually from mid-August to When I visited the Market recently, I asked many of these homes were paid for by the sale mid-September, although it officially opens Lois if their produce is organic. It is not, but of raspberries (marketed at the Duluth Farmers the weekend before Mother’s Day, and close to it – their production methods are very Market). One stall belonging to the Herman continues through late December, with the sustainable. They use a variety of “tricks”, family at one point was standing empty, and sale of Christmas trees. Customers may now such as planting through plastic, which the Head of the Lakes Berry Growers were use food support EBT cards, so more residents discourages weeds. They have no hired help, asked to come in. can enjoy the Market’s freshness and variety but one of their sons, a teacher, sometimes All of the Jackson Project plots had of healthy produce. helps them. They have three “high tunnels”, enough space for a subsistence garden; some Susan Schwanekamp is the St. Louis County something like a greenhouse, but which has even had barns for raising livestock. Many Historical Society Executive Assistant and the sides that roll up in summer. homesteaders used their land to develop small Editor for their newsletter Rootprints. The St. Even “older” than the Hoffbauers is Barb businesses involving some aspect of local food Louis County Historical Society is located in Hallinday, in her continuous participation for production. Throughout the history of the the St. Louis County Heritage & Arts Center 30 years in the Duluth Farmers Market. Barb’s Duluth Farmers Market, buyers have enjoyed (the Depot), 506 W. Michigan St., Duluth, parents, Ernest and Lucille, started the family the chance to meet and talk with growers – MN 55802. For more information, visit www. market gardening endeavor in the early ‘70’s. often the whole family, for whom the Market thehistorypeople.org or call 218-733-7580. She lives on the original property purchased provided not only a large part of their income, by her grandparents in 1916, in Duluth but was also a social vehicle. July 2011 Hillisider - Page 8 Arbor Day 2011 By Judy Gibbs city staff built a holding bed at its maintenance facility in which over 250 bare root trees were Arbor Day in Duluth was celebrated on placed as they await planting spaces. The trees May 31. Mayor Don Ness, Councilor Patrick are upwards of six feet tall with trunks about Boyle, city staff and interested volunteers and two inches in diameter. The holding bed has neighbors gathered to proclaim this year’s over ten species of trees, including maple, oak, Arbor Day. They planted the first of hundreds elm, and Ohio buckeye. The city spent about of boulevard trees scheduled to be planted this half of its grant money this year and the rest will season. That first tree was planted at 529 N 12 be spent next season for additional trees. ½ Ave E, the home of Olga Stanley, who has Many people intuitively know the value of lived in her house in this Hillside neighborhood large, urban trees, but their many effects can be since 1943. Once graced with large elms and quantitatively measured. It is these values that silver maples, this street now has many empty led the City of Duluth to reestablishing itself as photo by alicia lebens boulevard spaces, something that has become a Tree City USA for the first time since 2003 common of many of Duluth’s streets. For example, studies have found that: Much of the celebration this Arbor Day apartments and offices rent more quickly in to coordinate the development of a plan to deal revolved around the planting of trees resulting areas with trees; customers are willing to pay with Emerald Ash Borer and other invasive tree from several new initiatives announced by the up to 10% for certain products from businesses species. City of Duluth. on tree-lined streets; a great reduction in crime As a result, in the spring of 2010, Duluth The first is in acknowledging the receipt and physical violence in areas with high levels held its first Arbor Day since 2003, part of the of two grants, one from the Duluth Superior of greenery; patients have higher recovery rates requirements for regaining and retaining Tree Area Community Foundation and from the when hospital windows have views of trees; City USA status. A tree was planted in Chester Department of Natural Resources for a total of female adolescents have higher self-esteem in Park, and thousands of young trees were over $26,000 to buy trees to be planted on city areas with trees; and, workers who view nature planted by the public and school groups across boulevards. These trees will be put into areas from their desks feel more patient and less the city. Educational programs were given to that qualify as Community Development Block frustrated and have more enthusiasm for their many groups about invasive species and the Grant zones. Last summer, volunteers were jobs and satisfaction with their lives. importance of forest diversity. trained to inventory Duluth’s street trees and In addition, asphalt streets last longer when Duluth’s 2011 Arbor is an important milestone focused primarily the Central and East Hillside shaded by trees; proper landscaping including in the timeline of Duluth’s Urban Forestry neighborhoods. They also identified literally trees can reduce air conditioning costs by up to history. With threats from insects like the Gypsy hundreds of available planting spots in those 50%; property values increase up to 20% for Moth and Emerald Ash Borer at our doorstep, neighborhoods. Both grants were awarded, in those with trees; there is a reduction of the heat increasing the diversity of the tree canopy is part, because volunteers will be used for the island effect in cities with more canopy cover; vital to a healthy urban forest. actual tree plantings! and, trees reduce atmospheric pollution and A citizen forestry program that includes tree The Mayor also announced the establishment capture storm water. inventory and learning about invasive species of a dedicated tree fund, to which people may To help regain its Tree City status, during the will now be expanded to including tree planting. donate for future boulevard and park tree summer of 2009, Duluth applied for and received Those who would be interested in having a plantings. The city will commit $5000 a year an Americorps member, part of a new program tree planted on their boulevard should contact to this fund to purchase trees. Homeowners through the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Buildings and Grounds Maintenance at 218- anywhere in the city who are willing to put called the Minnesota GreenCorps. This Urban 730-4490. Those wishing to volunteer for tree forward $25 per tree may purchase, plant and Forestry Specialist worked with the Duluth City planting nights and weekends should contact the care for a boulevard tree with the city picking Forester and the Tree Commission to help find City Volunteer Coordinator at 218-269-4712 up the remaining cost per tree. Each tree costs ways to inventory the urban canopy utilizing Celebrate Arbor Day 2011 - plant a tree! approximately $50. volunteers, to find funding to buy new trees, to In order to make that happen, this spring assist with updating the Tree Ordinance, and Whatcha e-readin? e-books and e-readers at the Duluth Public Library

By Daniel Buckanaga fees! Library e-books are currently available in EPUB format, which is and Laurie Slattengren not compatible with the Amazon Kindle, but will work with most other Library Assistants at the Duluth Public Library devices. Kindle-compatible e-books may be available later this year or in 2012. The future is here for libraries! E-books (electronic books) are books The Duluth Public Library has just started circulating some e-readers, you can read on either a computer or an e-reader (electronic reading which can be checked out by anyone with a valid Duluth or Arrowhead device), which are starting to gain popularity due to a lower price point library card. The library’s e-readers are two Barnes and Noble Nooks (black ($100-150), exceptional battery life (a single charge can last weeks) and and white with wi-fi) and two Sony Readers. These devices are notable massive support from book publishers. for their use of an e-ink display. E-reader display technology, sometimes There are a variety of e-readers on the market, but the most popular are referred to as e-ink, has advanced significantly. It is getting to the point Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook, and Sony’s Reader devices. that the e-reader screen and book paper are almost indistinguishable. Gone A major advantage of e-books is that they’re weightless and portable. Are are the days of eyestrain caused by staring at a screen for hours. There is you heading off on vacation? If you want to bring along reading materials virtually no eyestrain using black and white e-readers like the Nook. It’s but don’t have a lot of room to pack them, these devices are perfect. the closest thing to an actual book page that we’ve ever seen. The black Most e-readers can hold hundreds (or even thousands) of titles in a small, and white displays on the e-reader are also glare resistant, which means lightweight, easy-to-carry device. Generally, e-books are less expensive you will be able to read during the day in direct sunlight, something you than their print versions, with the average title costing around $10 or less. can’t do with an iPad or laptop, or any color device, for that matter. There are also free resources readers can use to fill their devices. Many Since the text size on e-readers can be changed, they have the capability classic titles are available for free download from websites like Project of turning any book into large print, which is great for readers with poor Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org), Many Books (www.manybooks.net) eyesight. These resources and more are available to you with a Duluth and Google Books (books.google.com). Public Library card. Come check them out! If you have a valid library card in the Duluth Public Library or Arrowhead If you are interested in finding out more about the free e-book resources Library System, you can download free e-books through the library’s available to you from the Duluth Public Library, there will be an website. Head on over to http://arrowhead.lib.overdrive.com, where you information session on e-books and e-readers in the library Green Room can download the software and select which e-books to download. The on July 12 at 2 pm. For more information, visit www.duluth.lib.mn.us or e-books can then be transferred to your e-reader and may be checked call 730-4200. out for 2 weeks before being automatically returned - there are no late July 2011 Hillisider - Page 9

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219 N. 6th Ave. E. 722-3381 All are welcome www.gloriadeiduluth.org pastor David Carlson Hillsider Experts & Advice July 2011 Hillsider - Page 10 Astronomy: Camping Trip To Mars By Eric Norland red and the soil is red. This is because Mars is Now things take a turn towards science rusting. It has an atmosphere which is primarily fiction. Some curious samples taken from an Want to go on the ultimate camping trip this oxygen. The soil is rich in iron, which rusts embankment along the dry river channel have summer? How about going to Mars! You can under those conditions. unique coil shapes. They are buried down about see the ruddy colored planet in the very early The spacecraft selects a flat, rockless area to three feet below the surface. They are brought morning hours before sunrise, if you get up land and touches down. The temperature outside back to the ships lab for further analysis. before 4 am, where it is low in the northeast. is a minus 70 degrees below zero. It is sunny, Days later, the analysis of the soil is complete. There are two other bright planets on either but very cold and dry. In fact this is a dryness It is confirmed to be a microbial fungi. On earth side of Mars. The one that is highest above the unlike any experienced on earth. It can best be the similarity would be to a tree root. horizon is Jupiter. Look a little lower and see describe as desiccant dry. Mars has a 24 hour day, just like back on Mars just above the very bright planet Venus. It The astronauts suit up for their first walk on earth, and one evening a large dust storm blows is very close to the star cluster called the Hyades another planet. They enter an air lock room, then in and it starts to buffet the landing ship. The in Taurus. We are currently about 210 million climb down the ladder and step onto the firm astronauts hear thunder and see flashes of miles from Mars. Mercury is another morning red surface of this dry world. There is a wind lightning. Particles of dust and rock pelter the planet and it is fairly close to the sun, so it is blowing, it would be light by our standards, but ship. very tiny and illusive to see. hefty by Martian. An astronaut on the surface One of the men notices the Mars ganglion Now back to the camping trip. Imagine of Mars feels light, and has an easy spring to the that they had collected has begun to grow. It boarding an elevator and rising to the top of a walk. The gravity on Mars is 1/3 that of earth’s. must be reacting to the crafts warm 70 degree huge tower. You step into a room and then enter They can even jump along like a kangaroo. That temperature and that they had watered it. At first the hatch of a large rocket ship awaiting you. gets old, though, and is dangerous. The one it is growing up the side of a paper cup. Then it Step inside, sit back, facing straight up and strap thing you do not want to do on Mars is puncture fills the cup up with coily organics and branches on your seatbelt and begin the count. The hatch your suit, or crack your helmet open. This would off in several directions. Next it overflows the is closed along with five other crew members vent your pressurized space suit and leave you cup and hangs onto the table. ready for liftoff. vulnerable to the severe Mars bends, a symptom The next morning the storm has passed but The countdown continues to three, two, which would cause your blood to boil. the temperature outside had dropped to minus one. Then the roar of the giant rocket is heard Looking around, the landscape is so much 220 below. The astronauts awake to find ‘coily’ rumbling far below as the astronauts begin to like that of Arizona, Texas or California. Way had filled half the table. They thought it best to shake rapidly. The blue sky reflects on their off in the distance is a mesa, slightly hazed over throw the thing out after more analysis. visors, and things begin to rattle, and tremble as with a reddish hue. All around are distant hills, That night, it went wild. It climbed up the the rocket ship slowly lifts off past the conning outcrops, and craters with plenty of splashed red control panel, pulled out the switches and tower. For an instant the astronauts face fear, rocks out upon the rim. rendered the spacecraft ineffective for flight. will it go? Then the rocket pushes them faster Exploring the Mars surface would reveal The astronauts hacked it off the panel, but found away from the earth below. Their helmets many kinds of rocks, of all strange formations, it had gone under the panel and invaded the jostle in unison like bobbing heads amidst the mostly jagged and unweathered. A fine red electric circuit. It was after electricity! deafening roar. The feeling of g-forces pushes powder of silt fills in between and it easily They used a fire extinguisher to paralyze it. them back into their seats. The noise inside the dirties the astronauts suit. There are occasional Most of the coily was ripped away and thrown cockpit increases in pitch. At 150,000 feet, the dark pellets, which look like taconite pellets out onto the Martian surface, where it withered rocket passes into the inky darkness of space. back on earth. The astronauts have coined them and vanished in a day. Inside the spacecraft the The ride then becomes smoother and they soon “blueberries.” These are formed by the wind, astronauts repaired and mended the damage enter weightlessness and can see the curving when a hard mineral material blows across the done. They contacted mission control and blue planet earth below. In a matter of minutes surface for thousands of years and rolls into figured out a way to rewire the circuits and they have passed through the atmosphere and these shapes. make the spacecraft ready for liftoff. Another climb to around 100 miles into low orbit. The astronauts venture down into a ravine. dust storm was on the way. After a few orbits of the earth, the spacecraft The terrain is jagged with rocks, they are Finally the countdown to leave Mars arrived aims at Mars and fires its large rockets to begin careful and make it to the bottom and see some and the astronauts safely blasted off and its seven month journey. There will be many rounded rocks. It is obvious they were formed returned to the mother ship. They were lucky on cribbage games, daily exercise, training, science by running water in an ancient channel. At this camping trip to survive this hostile world. work and maintenance to pass away the days. one time Mars must have had running rivers. Seven months later, they were back on planet The craft enters Mar’s orbit and the astronauts The rocks tumbled and this rounded their sides earth. It had been nearly two years of being marvel at the varied terrain down below them. and left them in the position of that last watery away. The red colored world has amazing features era, estimated to be about 3 million years ago. In reality, nobody really knows what a Martian which stand out. There is the 3,000 mile wide What happened to the water? It is down in the camping trip might bring. Judging by how much Valles Marinaris, or Grand Canyon of Mars. permafrost, under the soil. The ice goes deep to fun and misadventure we have when going to the Also they see the three volcanoes of the Olympus about 50 feet, awaiting the day when Mars again B.W.C.A., we can safely say it would probably Mons chain. These are the highest volcanoes in warms up and it melts, sending runoffs of huge be the ultimate camping trip ever. the solar system, arising to 65,000 feet. rivers again upon the planet. For now Mars is Three lucky astronauts are selected to board dry, in a state of suspended animation. Eric Norland is a coordinator for the the lander down to the surface. They leave the The astronauts take samples and do some Arrowhead Astronomical Society (AAS) of mother ship and slowly descend. simple experiments on site. They have analysis Duluth. AAS meets on the second Wednesday Mars is a lot like the arid parts of Arizona. equipment, which can test the make up of the of every month at 8:00 PM, at the Marshall W. The overwhelming color of red is everywhere. soil. It turns out to be rich in magnesium and Alworth Planetarium. For more information, The sky has a reddish tint, the landscape looks iron. visit duluthaas.com.

Continued from Page 1 meeting and got deeper into specifics and details Home in Duluth Collaborative held two public about neighborhood priorities. Ms. Stuart used meetings in each of the five core neighborhoods. Two meetings were held in each neighborhood. the database formed from the data generated in What is on the agenda next for Year 2011? During the At Home in Duluth Collaborative the first meeting to get into those specifics. The The timeline is as follows: Review Plan I (based on the respective purpose of these meetings was and of future ∙ July – August: Staff prepares updated plans neighborhood’s 2007 Revitalization Plan) the meetings will be to provide opportunity for ∙ September: Another round of community facilitator, Ms. Lee Stuart of LISC, addressed community leadership and engagement in the meetings what had happened since the plans were created review, revision, and updating of the respective ∙October (late): Plans must be complete, and and started the process of generating priorities 2007 Neighborhood Revitalization Plan. The LISC will release them at the Connecting the for the next three to five years. The audiences in timeline that LISC had set is as follows: Dots event on November 5, 2011 each meeting took a closer look at five categories ∙ 2007: East and Central Hillside Neighborhood Thus, if you want a second chance to give in the 2007 Revitalization Plan: 1) housing Plans created input, look for the advertisements of the and real estate, 2) economic development, 3) ∙ 2007 to now: Progress on some fronts, September community meetings, attend them access to quality education, 4) increasing assets continued challenges on other with your neighbors. If you want to know the and income, and 5) healthy environments and fronts, and new opportunities outcome of the input from these meetings in the lifestyles. She took the audience’s priorities ∙ 2011: Take stock and review core neighborhoods, please attend Connecting regarding each of these five categories with her Thus, being Year 2011, this year during March the Dots on November 5, 2011. Too, perhaps for the purpose of forming a database. and April At Home in Duluth Collaborative Ms. Stuart will find a way to get the outcomes The At Home in Duluth Collaborative Review reviewed. Then in May of 2011 CDBG held to the City Council this year. Plan II focused on the input from the first public forums; in May and June of 2011 At July 2011 Hillsider - Page 11

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KIDS ART CAMP Concerts are held Tuesday nights, 7:00-8:30 PM, June 7 to August Painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts and photography. 9, 2011. For weather cancellations, call the Chester Creek Concert Ages 7-12 Mon - Fri 9 AM - 4 PM $200 $250 non-members Hotline at 218-730-4326 after 6:00 PM. For more information, visit duluthmn.gov/parks. SESSION 2 SESSION 3 SESSION 4 Dates 7/11 - 7/15 Dates 7/18 - 7/22 Dates 7/25 - 7/29 Jay Cooke State Park 780 Hwy. 210, Carlton, MN 55718 218- 384-4610 Ext: 227.

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