NORTH NEWS November 30, 2017 • Serving the neighborhoods of North Minneapolis • www.mynorthnews.org Your NEIGHBORHOODNEIGHBORHOOD GROCERYGROCERY has arrived North Market is set to open Dec. 13 at 44th and Humboldt. Page 12 North Market project leaders from Pillsbury United Communities, Adair Mosley and Vanan Murugesan, have spent three years bringing the store to life. Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis, Folwell overhauls its neighborhood Postal Customer Postal association Page 4 ******************ECRWSSEDDM**** New city council representation for PERMIT NO. 92977 NO. PERMIT Minneapolis, MN 55411 MN Minneapolis, North Minneapolis Page 5 TWIN CITIES MN CITIES TWIN 125 West Broadway Ave. Suite 130 Suite Ave. Broadway West 125 PAID US POSTAGE US ECRWSS ECRWSS Your guide to shopping local this NON-PROFIT ORG NON-PROFIT holiday season Page 10 2 • North News • November 30, 2017 NORTHnews Seeing us in new places? That's by design, and we need your feedback! get information about North Mar- Huddle in October. MPR is rent- an examination of the rental mar- publication is for you. ket into many homes. Address- ing a small space at UROC with ket over here. es in all of 55412 and parts of the intention of exploring how to We're hoping to begin running Until next time, 55430, and 55422 (the zip codes better connect with a Northside these pieces in our next issue. If immediately surrounding the audience. this edition of the paper feels a Kenzie O’Keefe store) have received the paper at Moos and Laura Yuen, MPR's little light on the student stories, Editor/Publisher, North News home. correspondent for new voices, that's why. [email protected] Typically we deliver 10K papers then graciously offered to host a As always, please send us your 651.245.2647 Letter from the Editor to 400 public drop sites. This field trip for our North News jour- feedback and story ideas. 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The monthly community runs Breaking Bread Cafe on West meeting has garnered national attention Broadway Ave, serving healthy, global for its success connecting people, bring- food, providing jobs, and offering a neigh- ing down crime, and creating better liv- borhood gathering space for the commu- ing conditions in the neighborhood. On nity. They bring the community out and Dec. 7, the Huddle will celebrate its 20th together, and they motivate individuals to anniversary at its usual meeting at Far- build racial, economic and health equality Commissioner Higgins won't run for view Park Rec Center at 7:30am. Huddle through community cooking workshops, reelection in 2018 leaders past and present will be honored. and job training programs for youth. AFC Read more on Page 17. is on a mission to build health, wealth and Hennepin County Commissioner Linda Northsider competes for Miss Higgins announced on Nov. 10 that she social change in North Minneapolis, using Oscar-winning Moonlight to screen Minnesota USA title food as its tool. The Bush Prize is awarded will retire in January 2019 and not seek re- at the Capri on Dec. 7 Thandisizwe Jackson-Nisan, Miss Plus once a year to problem-solving organiza- election next year. Higgins has represent- This month’s First Thursday Film at the Ca- America 2016, competed against 50 oth- tions across Minnesota, North and South ed District 2, which includes North Min- pri is Moonlight. The screening begins at er women in the Miss Minnesota USA Dakota, and the 23 native nations that neapolis, Saint Anthony Village, Golden 7pm and will be followed by a discussion 2018 pageant on November 25-26. Jack- share the same geography. Winners re- Valley, Medicine Lake, Plymouth, North- lead by actor, director, and educator Kev- son-Nisan ran under the body-positive ceive a package that includes promotional east, the North Loop, and Bryn Mawr in D. West of Penumbra Theatre. Tickets platform “Plus is Equal.” Though she support and materials, and an unrestrict- neighborhoods since 2012. She said she to First Thursday Films are $5 and can be didn't place, she was given an award for ed grant. Out of the 127 applications the was giving notice now “to allow all poten- purchased in advance at www.mspfilm.org foundation received, AFC was one of the tial candidates time to weigh their options interviewing. or at the door the night of the show. seven winners with a grant of $470,981. and for constituents to make an informed “The 2017 winners are unstoppable forc- decision.” There has been some specula- es who show up everyday determined to tion that State Senator Bobby Joe Cham- create collective solutions for their com- pion (D-59) will run for the position, but he munities. They push through challenges says he will not. “I’m really not running for and hardship for causes they care about, county commissioner,” he told a group of Owned by community members, everyone welcome to shop stirring up and inspiring much-needed Folwell residents on Nov. 13. change in the places they call home “ said By Kenzie O'Keefe | Editor Mandy Ellerton, Community Innovation Director at the foundation. Two Northside events celebrate 20 By Myesha Powell | North High Reporter year anniversaries: Holiday on 44th The 20th annual Holiday on 44th celebra- tion will take place Friday, Dec. 1. Event organizers say that “all the usual activi- ties people expect” will return this year – chestnut roasting, ice carving, horse- Freshly made Food demos drawn carriage rides, and much more. In honor of the event’s 20 year anniversary, deli soup, and events a hot air balloon will be inflated at Loring sandwiches, every Saturday Field. “We thought we needed something and coffee super exciting. It won’t be flying but it will Basketball legend will return to light up Loring Field with fire and color,” North High as assistant coach said event organizer Tammy Rose. The Khalid El-Amin, one of Minnesota’s great- celebration will stretch from Patrick Hen- est prep athletes ever, played profession- ry High School to Loring School on 44th KNOW YOUR ally worldwide for 15 years.