October Bastardy pg 3 Power of Art pg 8 Wellness pg 8 &12 14 Rebel in Rye pg 10 Clean Sweep What’s Fair Fare? pg 2 Saturday Franklin Br. Demo pg 5 Details on First Person Radio pg 9 pg. 3,4,5 Mt. Olive Geo/Solar pg 7 OF, BY, AND FOR ITS READERS SINCE 1976 Barricades: Up & Down pg 6 OCTOBER 2017 • VOLUME 42, NUMBER 10 AWE OF AUTUMN AWE OF LONGEVITY A Sophal and Nevy Nhep greeted scores of past custom- ers and served “one last meal” to long time customers like these two women in front of their new Food Service truck replacing their Best Steaks and Gyros business at Chicago W Crossings (Franklin Avenue/Chicago Avenue Intersection). This future leader will be able to walk through the English curtain at will and leave it all behind having learned Objibwe and/or Dakota cul- ture, traditions, and language; and the wholeness of the circle of life. He will understand how important autumn is…the timing of the leaves that turn to color – bronze, yellow, orange, red – signal when they choke off the flow of nutrients to their leaves whether winter will be early or late. Photo: Jewell Arcoren AUTUMN IN OUR HEARTS E BY LAURA WATERMAN WITTSTOCK Before cars, before buildings, before the incessant consumption of natural resources, there was another population that went through the seasons, adjusted to disasters, fell in battle, and buried their dead. In less than 100 years, European settlers managed to wipe out over 90% of the old growth forest in what is now Minnesota. Before the arrival of the French and the Ojibwe, the river along what is now St. Paul, bustled with the canoe and watercraft traffic of the Dakota people and their Hidatsa allies. The canoes, heavy with rice and other grains, headed down the river to what is now St. Louis where a huge trading T center was supported by the exchange of goods and services of many tribes. They came back with medicines, new foods, and robes for the winter to add to what they already tanned. It was labor intensive and women were at the forefront of the trading. The men hunted and defended the villages of the people. In 1834 the missionaries Samuel W. and Gideon H. Pond with Stephen R. Riggers and Thomas S. Williamson put together a Christian version of written Sophal Dakota. The resulting dictionary, still in print, has such words as pickle, Read Peter Molenaar’s story on the closure of picnic, pictorial, picture frame, and physics. This was far from the and Nevy Nhep’s restaurant on page 11 reality of the Dakota people, who came from the stars and understood every plant and tree, every change of season, and every animal in their U territory. The printed words stunted their knowledge generation after generation until it seemed they might disappear. But they did not disappear. The Dakota language, rich and full of meaning and nuance, moved beyond the curtain of English that was papered everywhere in writing and talk. If you know the Dakota lan- guage, you can walk through that English curtain at will and leave it all behind. You understand how important autumn is – not just a time to think about buying a sweater. The timing of the leaves that turn to color – bronze, yellow, orange, red – signal when they choke off the flow of nutrients to their leaves M whether winter will be early or late. It is interesting to look at trees, to understand one kind from another and to know the uses of the trees. Sugar maples that once filled the hardwood forests are now seen in tiny stands. The Dakota people made maple products for energy-rich food that could be consumed the whole year. But now, the leaves tell their story. Now, little children walk from their Dakota class in the Phillips Neighborhood with their teacher to a nearby garden. He points out the various plants and trees along the AWE OF ART See page 9 for the rest of Autumn in our Hearts THE POWER OF ART • See page 8 It seems that our community is always under assault, doesn’t it some- NOctober = Autumn = Awetumn = Phillips Clean Sweep. Is it times? From the exploding heroin epidemic to the President’s ending of DACA, there is always some threat to respond to. How do we keep our REALLY about picking-up 1.57 square miles of left-overs and sanity in such times? recycling between 35-W & Hiawatha and E-94 & Lake Street? One way is through art—whether it’s painting a mural, decorating a cake for a quinceañera, writing a poem or a story, making mosaics or Or is it a Great Social Event; FREE breakfast of OJ, coffee, fruit, puppets or sculpture—working together to create art can transform the and pastries; and a FREE T- Shirt? Yup, it’s all of the above!! neighborhood while it is transforming the lives of those who make it and those who experience it. 2 AWE of LEARNING The Alley Newspaper • October 2017 BY JESSICA SHAYKETT Phillips West Youth and All Ages Programs at Read Aloud Book Club Neighborhood Mondays: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. the Franklin Grades 4-6. Join other kids to Upcoming Events The Alley Library www.phillipswest.info P.O. Box 7006 talk about a great book. No pre- Mpls.,MN 55407 reading required! We will share Call Editor 612-990-4022 and discuss a book and enjoy BY CRYSTAL TRAUTNAU WINDSCHITL [email protected] activities. October 5th (Thursday) 6:00 available in the rear of building www.alleynews.org K-12 Homework Help to 7:00 p.m. – Phillips West off of Oakland Avenue. Free Follow us on twitter.com/alleynewspaper Tuesdays/Wednesdays/ 1314 E. Franklin Avenue Monthly Community Meeting! Jakeeno’s Pizza Dinner will be Alley Communications, a 501C-3, Thursdays, 3:30 p.m. - 7:30 Complete program list or provided! If you would like more info Not-for-Profit Corp. publishes The p.m. Free in-person tutoring for Join your neighbors and other information or would like to get Alley Newspaper and other media. 612- 543-6925 K-12 students. No advance sign- www.hclib.org Community Partners for updates involved in the neighborhood “When the great newspapers don’t say up needed. More info: www. Mon, Fri & Sat: 9am–5pm from Local City Government please contact Crystal at 612-879- much, see what the little independent hclib.org/homework. Sponsor: Tue, Wed & Thurs: & Minneapolis Police. Meeting 5383 or email her at pwno2005@ ones say.” – Wendell Phillips Friends of the Hennepin County 9am –8pm will take place at the Center yahoo.com Sun: 12-5pm Library. for Changing Lives Building Crystal Trautnau Windschitl is Donations are needed, welcome, Franklin Meal Program Anime Club, Saturday, October in the Centrum Room (2400 Executive Director of Phillips and Tax Deductible. Volunteers who had a part in Tuesdays/Wednesdays/ 14 and 28, 3 – 4:30 p.m. Park Avenue). Free parking is West Neighborhood Organization making this issue: Robert Albee, Thursdays, Dinner: 3:30 – 5 Discuss manga and share art- Jewell Arcoren, Clyde Bellecourt, p.m. Snack: 5 – 6 p.m. work. Something different every Transit Patrick Cabello Hansel, East Phillips Share a meal with your friends time! Improvement Coalition, Linnea and family in the Franklin Teen For Adults Hadaway, Hennepin County Franklin Fares Rise: What’s Fair Fare? Library and Staff, Hennepin County Center. Available for all ages Franklin Learning Center BY JOHN CHARLES WILSON Traffic, Sue Hunter Weir, In the when accompanied by youth. Tuesday, Wednesday & 25 Cent Fare Increase Oct. 1 Heart of the Beast Theatre, Soren Family Storytime, Fridays: Thursday, 10 am-4:30 pm; The biggest transit news in Jensen, KFAI Radio, Leah Kondes, 10:30 – 11 a.m. Friday & Saturday, 9 am-5 pm Phillips, indeed in the whole Twin Tim McCall, Midtown Greenway, For children of all ages and their 612-543-6934. Free, flexible Cities, this month is obviously the Midtown Phillips Neighborhood Association, Minneapolis Swims, parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, instruction to adults in basic 25-cent fare increase going into Peter Molenaar, MUID-Metropolitan read, write and play together in reading, writing, math, and effect October 1st. Urban Indian Directors, Dave Moore, a format appropriate for young English Language Learning; Fair Fare Future? Maggie Moran, Brad Pass, Carol children. Share books, stories, including U. S. citizenship and One thing that is interesting Pass, Phillips 50+ Wellness, Phillips rhymes, music and movement. GED preparation. To register about it is that the Met Council West Neighborhood, Julie Roles, Jessica Shaykett, Semilla Healing The Science of Art: Nature- with us, you can call or stop in – is looking at reforming the fare and Arts Center, Sunny Sevigny, Inspired Masks, Saturday, we are located in the lower level structure to be more equitable. Frances Stevenson, Crystal Trautnau October 28, 2 – 3:30 p.m. of the Franklin Library. Some things being considered Windschitl, Laura Waterman Grades 1-6. Learn about colors Memoir Writing Group include bringing back distance- Wittstock, John Charles Wilson. and patterns in nature from an Thursday, October 19, 1-3pm based fares (zones) and providing Delivery: To every Phillips artist naturalist, then use that Would you like to create a record breaks to “reverse” commuters first ring suburbs during rush Community residence by Sara Nelson knowledge and your imagina- of your personal history? Bring – people who live in the inner hour, are paying more now than Delivery; to 170 businesses, places of tion to make a whimsical mask! what you have written and are city and work in the suburbs.