BOTTINEAU GAZETTE A Publication of the Bottineau Neighborhood Association 2205 California Street ™ Minneapolis, MN ™ 55418 612.782.2145 ™ [email protected] In This Issue Public Comment Period NOTICE Regarding Cedar Services Site Neighborhood Meeting Cedar Services Comment Thursday, February 23rd Period.......................1 The Health Consultation for the Cedar 7:00 PM at Services Site has been completed and Eastside Neighborhood Services One River Mississippi..1 is available for viewing. The public th comment period ends on March 8 . OPEN FORUM Phone Numbers.........2 Cedar Services was an operating wood To help us prepare for the 3rd Ward treatment facility until 1972. It was Summit, the BNA Board of Directors Liquor and Livability...2 located at the southeast corner of St. will have a summary of what we have Anthony Boulevard and University heard are your top issues and priorities Rentwise Tenant Avenue. Around 1961, about 30,000 for the neighborhood. This is your Education..................2 gallons of PCP wood treatment fluid chance to correct us and add more was spilled after a truck accident on before the summit on March 4th. Third Ward Forum ......2 the site. This Health Consultation addresses that spill, which appears Bottineau Park News...3 to affect the groundwater in the Bottineau neighborhood. The report > GAF Getting There from contains background and historical Here .........................3 information, discussion about the also installed a new filter in the fume chemicals involved, conclusions, line, which Mr. Clark indicated seems Websites...................3 recommendations, pages of maps to have had a positive impact in itself. and more. The recommendation that He further said —it is a high priority for Calendar...................4 has the most impact on the Bottineau the Plant Staff to complete this neighborhood is that all private wells project going into March.“ Bottineau Neighborhood in the area should be tested. If you Association have a private well, you are urged to contact the MN Department of Health One River Mississippi Board of Directors: With info from email newsletter from the MPRB or the MN Pollution Control Agency to • Jason Kettlewell have your well tested. • Tim Kremer Those of you familiar with the Solstice • Jane Calvin River performances that have taken • David Salmela Copies of the report can be found at Noelle DeHarportte place along the Mississippi River near • the NE Library (2200 Central Ave) and • Isabelle Harder the Stone Arch Bridge in past years online at www.health.state.mn.us/ • vacant will be interested to know that this (key word search: cedar services) year the One River Mississippi event on June 24 will include simultaneous GAF Update site-specific dance performances at seven different locations along the According to Tom Clark, plant River from Itasca to Venice/Fort manager, 98% of the new components Jackson near the Gulf of Mexico. To were installed in December. They are subscribe to the Report from the still waiting for a fire protection device Artistic Director e-newsletter and and a variable speed drive for the fan. learn more about One River This will happen in February. They Mississippi and how you can become Please Recycle involved, email Jana Larson at GAF next column > [email protected]. February 2006 Liquor and Livability Rentwise Tenant Education Phone February 21 & 28, 2006: 9:00 am - It is not an accident that this part of 1:30 pm, Nativity Lutheran Church, Police, Fire and Medical Northeast Minneapolis has as many 3312 Silver Lake Road, St. Anthony. Emergency bars and restaurants as it does; an 911 unintended consequence maybe, but You‘ll learn the skills you need to definitely not an accident. In 1887 the secure suitable, affordable rental Minneapolis City Info: MN State Legislature created the liquor housing. Some topics include 311 patrol district. —The ostensible purpose developing a spending plan, tenants‘ was to confine the liquor trade to areas rights, home maintenance, Bottineau Neighborhood within walking distance of police tenant/landlord relationships, finding Association precinct stations… . Whether or not and applying for a rental unit, and 782-2145 they accomplished this goal, the patrol understanding rental agreements limits had a significant impact on the (leases.) Participants who complete a 3rd Ward Councilwoman [development of] neighborhoods minimum of 9 hours of class time will Hofstede immediately within and adjoining their receive a RentWise Certificate along 673-2203 boundaries.“ (The Norwegian American with continued support in the area of Historical Association, www. rental housing. A free, light lunch is Hennepin County naha.stolaf.org). included. Participants must attend both Commissioner Stenglein sessions to receive the certificate. 348-7882 Over the last 120 years much has changed. We have struggled through If you are interested in getting more Parks Commissioner the Great Depression and several information or registering for a class, Dziedzic recessions, Minneapolis has seen the please call Joyce at 763-807-8665 or 230-6443 rise of the middle class (from 1887), Becky at 612-781-3630 or email we have arguably turned into more [email protected]. Bottineau Park of a binge culture, the legal drinking 370-4958 age has increased, and more. However, Third Ward Forum the location of many of these Family Violence, establishments to very nearby homes Council Woman Hofstede is planning a Domestic Abuse, Child has not. This has led to many cases Third Ward Summit meeting for Abuse of conflict. Saturday, March 4th. This meeting will 673-3072 run from 8:30 AM to noon and be held In most instances, it is the behavior at Eastside Neighborhood Services. The Housing Inspections of a few that are the cause of the purpose of this meeting is to bring 673-5858 problems. But when there are hundreds together all the stakeholders in the of patrons, even a small minority can ward to lay the foundation for a NE Home Ownership be problematic. Many, and perhaps framework of initiatives, problem- Center most, of the bar and restaurant owners solving and accountability around 378-7985 understand and respect the mutually agreed upon goals and relationships they have with their objectives that everyone Community Crime neighbors and work together when (neighborhoods, City Council, business Prevention livability (crime) issues, like public leaders, etc.) agrees to work on 673-2797 urination, vandalism and loud noise together over the next four years. late at night, arise. However, Pierre Bottineau Library a few do not appear to feel this way. All Third Ward stakeholders are invited. 630-6890 BNA has been able to work with some For more information or to volunteer, of these owners to address a few of the please call Council Member Hofstede‘s Minneapolis Park Board problems, but the complaints persist Office at 673-2203 230-6400 and the willingness to continue working together seems to be waning. Minneapolis Solid Waste and Recycling On page three you will find some 673-2917 telephone numbers that we encourage you to use when problems occur. Traffic Enforcement 673-3443 livability issues on page 3 > - 2 - Bottineau Park News Getting There from Here Websites BEARS, BUTTERFLIES, and BIRDS At the January 26th Bottineau Where are they? Search for life in a Neighborhood Association General Bottineau Neighborhood Minnesota winter. Learn about animals Meeting, there was discussion about Association that escape the cold, hide in the snow transportation routes from Bottineau bottineauneighborhood.org and take a rest until winter is through. to common destinations. To help with Be a detective and find out what all our transportation planning, BNA offers Minneapolis ci.minneapolis.mn.us animal friends are doing when the the following suggestions on how to weather turns cold. (Preschool) get —there“ from —here.“ rd 3 Ward Thursdays, February 23, March 2, 9, 16 ci.minneapolis.mn.us/ 12:00pm œ 1:00pm $5.00 Cub Foods (Silver Lake Village, council/ward3 Fridley): Take the 11 (2nd St. stops) NATURE BABIES: SENSATIONAL to the Columbia Heights Transit hub; Inspections SEASONS transfer to the 801 to Silver Lake ci.minneapolis.mn.us/ Winter, spring, summer and fall. Play Village); or take the 32 (Lowry and inspections your way through the seasons with Grand) to Stinson Ave and transfer your favorite little person (up to 3 to the 25 to Silver Lake Village. Hennepin County co.hennepin.mn.us years). Stories, songs and creative play for our youngest naturalists and Rosedale Shopping Mall: One of the nd Park Board an adult. (Preschool w/adult) easier routes. Just hop on the 32 (2 minneapolisparks.org Fridays, February 17, 24, March 3,10 and Lowry). This goes to Rosedale and 11:00am to 12:00pm $10.00 also makes a stop at the St. Anthony Minnesota Pollution Shopping Center. Control Agency Call 370-4958 to register. pca.state.mn.us 2000 2nd St. N.E. The Quarry Center (Home Depot, Rainbow, Target, and more). Take Environmental Protection > livability issues from page 2 the 32 to Johnson St and transfer to Agency the 5. (this will also get you to Silver epa.gov • Call 911 if it is an emergency Lake Village if you go north at Johnson (medical assistance is needed, Street) Friends of the Mississippi suspicious activity, or to report a fmr.org crime in progress) Downtown, the Mall of America and • Call the owner to make him or her the Airport: Another simple route. Mississippi Corridor aware of what is happening œ Take the 11 to many downtown stops. Neighborhood Coalition mcnc-mpls.org sometimes they really don‘t know. Any stop near 5th street will be close to You can generally find the numbers the light rail which will take you to the NE Minneapolis Arts in the phone book. MOA or the airport. Association • Call BNA at 782-2145 to let us art-a-whirl.org know so we can help document Minneapolis Institute of Art: complaints.