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Columbia Cements Uptown As Outerwear Destination, Do Warning Signs prevent Car Break-ins? and Volunteer At The Uptown Art Fair.TRANSCRIPT
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July 2009 • Volume 5, Number 7
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“From Here to Eternity” (Photo by Bruce Cochran)New sculptural playground equipment has been donated to the Lake Calhoun North Beach.
Your Community-Supported News Source • Covering the Neighborhoods of CARAG and ECCO and the Uptown Area
Uptown may have fallen in love with the Minnesota Bicycle Festival Uptown Cri-terium on June 12 as they watched Rich Wieber’s Bicycle Stunt Show. (Photo by
Bruce Cochran)
Danny’s Garden Cultivating Common Ground at Common Roots CaféBy Sarah Sponheim
When the two houses across the alley from his café came up for sale last December, Danny Schwartzman spied an opportunity. The yards behind both houses were totally paved over, but Danny saw through the concrete to the soil. He purchased the properties with the intention of rehabilitating the houses and transforming the area around them. Six months later, the houses have face-lifts and are surrounded by a thriving tapestry of garden beds.
Danny conceived of this new garden as a “natural extension of the café” that would work in synergy with the café’s mission. Located at the corner of 26th Street and Lyndale Avenue South, Common Roots Café serves good food made from local, organic ingredients. (The café may be best known for its outstanding homemade bagels.) Supporting local farmers and food produc-ers is central to the mission of the restaurant. Equally integral is its commit-ment to supporting the community by holding public events and offering the use of a sunny meeting room to non-profit groups. Danny and his staff are dedicated environmentalists. In addition to sourcing its food locally, the café further shrinks its carbon footprint through energy conservation, the use of salvaged building materials and waste reduction via composting and recycling.
When I met with Danny in early May, he and a group of volunteers had just finished installing the garden. Planting had followed on the heels of excavat-ing the asphalt, digging up grass and shrubs, testing and replacing much of the topsoil, which was contaminated with lead, adding high-quality compost from a local farm and finishing with woodchip mulch. What I found on that cool May morning was a large garden dotted with a variety of organic veg-etable and herb seedlings, flowering perennials, gooseberry and raspberry bushes and young trees that will one day bear apples, cherries and plums.
Fully mature, the garden will provide the café with the freshest possible produce. However, Danny is quick to emphasize that the “primary focus of
Sign LanguageDo Warning Signs prevent Car Break-ins?By Bruce Cochran
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Volunteer At The Uptown Art Fair The Uptown Art Fair on August 8 through 9 is one of the most widely attended events in Minnesota and would not be possible without hun-dreds of volunteers.
Sharing the AbundanceWhy let Fresh Fruit go to Waste Do you have an apple, plum or pear tree in your yard that produces more than your family can eat? Volunteers from the Minnesota Project’s Fruits of the City program will be harvesting excess fruit from trees from the Twin Cities and donating it to a local food shelf. Families that wouldn’t other-wise be able to afford it will get fresh fruit, and you won’t have to pick up spoiled fruit from your lawn. To register a tree or to volunteer, call Ben at 651.789.3320 or e-mail [email protected]. Harvest days will be held reg-ularly from August through October. See www.mnproject.org/food-Fruit-sOfTheCity.html for more information.
If you’ve ever shopped at Rainbow Foods on Lagoon and thought it felt like the neglect-ed child of the Rainbow stores around the Twin Cities, you may be in for a surprise. Rain-bow Foods would like to do a complete rebuild with two levels of ramp parking with the grocery store above, including a few small businesses at street level on Lagoon. (See the CARAG minutes on page 5 under “Zoning Committee Report” for more details.) (Photo
by Bruce Cochran)
Rainbow Rebuild?
Magers And Quinn Booksellers and Gig-Posters.com held a Release Party and Poster Sale on June 14. The party and poster sale was to celebrate the publica-tion of Gig Posters Volume I. Minneapolis artists were on hand to autograph, sell and discuss their poster art including Adam Turman who’s art is featured above.
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Marching in front of Calhoun Square on June 20, protesters showed their solidarity and support by calling attention to the controversy over the recent outcome of the presi-dential election in Iran between current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi. (Photo by www.jeffrey-farnam.com)
The lone sign of the entire east and southeast side of Lake Calhoun, warning about leaving valuables in your car, is located in the southeast parking lot. (Photo
by Bruce Cochran)
“I’ve tried for years to get the Min-neapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) to put up warning signs.” This was Minneapolis Fifth Precinct Crime Prevention Specialist Tom Thompson respond-ing to a question about reducing car break-ins around Lake Calhoun. Currently the east side and southeast parking lots adjacent to Lake Calhoun, the juris-diction of the MPRB, have a total of 1 warn-ing sign about leaving valuables in your car. But how could this be if it is one of the most populated lakes in Minneapolis and con-sistently sees a high concentration of car break-ins?
At the May 7 ECCO Neighborhood meeting, President Nancy Ward suggested installing signs around the lake to warn visitors, (non-locals make up the majority of targets), not to leave valuables in their cars.
But philosophies about prevention appear to differ between the MPD and the MPRB. When questioned about the lack of signage around the lake to prevent break-ins, the MPRB
police responded, “We oppose signage because people should be removing their valuables before they get to their destina-tion.”
“Spotters” as they are called, work as a crime team. The concern from the MPRB police was that these “spot-ters” would watch people put their valu-ables in the trunks, which are just as easy to break into as win-dows. If people get to the park, as the sce-
nario goes, read the warning sign and then put their valuables in the trunk then the thieves know for a fact that that car has valuables in it. This potentially makes it more likely to be robbed, their reasoning goes.
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Columbia Cements Uptown As Outerwear DestinationWill store prevent “Mall Suck” phenomenon?
Although Columbia Sportswear already has a store in the Mall of America, this new store at 3016 Hennepin may test the Uptown area for it’s ability to continue to viably attract retail when the malls are such a convenient alternative for shoppers. The store is scheduled to open next April, sandwiched between The North Face and the Uptown Bar and Cafe. Responding to potential competition from The North Face, representatives said that they feel they have “a wider variety of products and superior outdoor gear technologies.”
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Southwest School Scuffle One of the main problems the district faces is declining enrollments due to people choosing charter schools or private schools. The school board is risking much when it disrupts two very successful programs, the Lyndale School, which provides a high level of academic excellence to a large English Language Learner (ELL) and free and reduced lunch population, and the Barton Open program.
The Mega-School plan is not the plan favored by education experts. Many education professionals understand that Open School pro-grams particularly are sensitive to scale. Size does matter.
The Mega-School plan is complex and needlessly disruptive - setting in motion thousands of students at three schools, and risking the educa-tional excellence of high performing schools that are providing education to students most at risk.
The potential benefits of the Mega-School plan will be found in the future. It will be years if ever before the new community school started at the Barton site will be able to achieve the same level of excellence,
commentaryand years before the Barton/Lyn-dale/Ramsey programs can recover from the shock of such a major reor-ganization.
The Mega-School program is expen-sive and excessive - there are cheaper plans that will still create a commu-nity school for the Kingfield neigh-borhood. Barton school, early in the CSO process, proposed increasing its ELL population and increasing its
economic and racial diversity while opening more spots for community res-idents.
The Lyndale School also had a proposal. Lyndale is actually the closest school to the current bound-aries of the King-
field neighborhood and is the most logical choice as a community school for those families. In June they invit-ed the Mega-School proponents to tour their school. About twenty peo-ple attended, many of them Barton parents. In blog postings the Lyndale School has been rejected as a viable location for the Kingfield Commu-nity school because of “Crime rate and property values.”
Barton School is highly successful. This spring Cambridge Education gave Barton School the highest rat-ing in the district in an external quality review. Test scores, while an incomplete measure of a schools ability to provide learning to stu-dents, still indicate that Barton is
highly successful at meeting both the State’s and the Districts goals. Yet the Mega-School proposal labels this excellence as elitism in their quest to create a school for their neighbor-hood at the Barton site.
This group of parents is currently distributing petitions and calling people on the phone to ask them to back their plan. Lacking educational underpinnings for their proposal, they are seeking to use political means to their ends.
In mid-July the School Board and District will meet in a working ses-sion to look at all the various pro-posals. This has become a sort of target date. The debate is reach-ing a fevered pitch and these voices are threatening to drown out more rational and reasoned advocates for our kids.
Petitions and flyers are currently being circulated across much of South Minneapolis asking simply if parents support having another community school in the neighbor-hood. The petition does not mention that the school comes at a great cost to 3000 students and their families and three schools. It does not lay out all the risks and expenses involved, or the complications that our com-munity commitment to providing school choice entails.
Before Lyndale, Ramsey and Barton are combined in a duel campus there should be compelling evidence that such a move is in the broad interests of the wider school district, not just in the interests of a few vocal advo-cates. All plans should be viewed and judged through the lens of academic excellence. Those who are interested should contact their school board members and urge them to support less risky, disruptive and unproven plans to meet the community school needs of the F2, (the designation for that part of southwest Minneapolis on school district maps) families. Open Education should remain a viable choice for Minneapolis fami-lies. The final plan to emerge should support those options that will better serve all Minneapolis families.
Jeff Forester is a member of the CARAG board, but these views are not necessarily the board’s views. His wife is a teacher at Barton School, their kids attend there and they all live in CARAG.
By Jeff Forester
Earlier this year, the Minneapolis School Board and District, largely in response to falling revenues and declining enrollment, began to look at the ways that offering parents options in education played out across the district. The guidelines of the process are posted on the MPS website,(www.mpls.k12.mn.us) under Changing School Options.
One goal of the process is to make sure that every area will have a local community school, but how that might look is not decided - some schools will be closed and area lines will be redrawn. Change is coming and change can be scary, but the school board has repeatedly voiced the goal that in the process, they should do no harm.
A small but organized and vocal group of parents, however, has used the CSO process as a stone upon which to grind their pet project, creating a community school for the Kingfield neighborhood in the site that is now occupied by the Clara Barton Open School. The 800 Barton students would be combined with the Ramsey and Lyndale programs in a mega-duel campus school.
On May 5th the Minneapolis School District presented a CSO plan to the school board that did not include this mega duel campus proposal. Citing this lack, and other short comings, the School Board asked the District to go back, look at all options again, specifically asking the district to look at the Mega-School option the group of Kingfield par-ents were pushing.
The Mega-School plan sounds reasonable on the surface - the highly successful and sought after Barton program would be in a larger building, and therefore able to serve more peo-ple. The plan, on its sur-face, would increase diversity in the Barton program. But the entire pro-gram depends on one key assump-tion - that the Barton program could be moved, and nearly doubled in size, and still be able to provide the quality of education it has in the past. It also assumes that the Lyn-dale and Ramsey programs could weather the same storm. There is no evidence to support this claim, and much research to suggest that such a disruption would be very risky, expensive and disruptive.
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An additional part of that MPRB equation is that they are always riding a fine line between rule enforcement and aesthetics. An overabundance of signage begins to detract from the beauty of the parks.
But MPD’s Thompson maintains that signs prevent break-ins, even though he doesn’t necessarily advo-cate them everywhere. At other high break-in hotspots like Lake and Hennepin, for instance, a warn-ing sign gets lost in the background noise of sign clutter.
When Dawn Sommers, Public Infor-mation and Marketing Manager for the MPRB was asked to respond to the issue, she said, “These inquiries from the public have re-generated discussions on the matter. We can certainly install the signs if that is what the public wants.”
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The CARAG Board meets the third Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m. at Bryant Park Community Center, 31st and Bryant. All CARAG residents are welcome and urged to attend.
Bryant Square Ice Cream SocialWednesday July 8th 6:00-8:00pmIce Cream, Pizza, Music, Moonwalk, Dunk Tank and other activities.
Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG), Monthly Neigh-borhood Meeting Minutes, June 16, 2009. Subject to approval at the August 2009 CARAG Meeting. Min-utes recorded and submitted by Maren Nowicki.
Board Members Attending John Darlington, Jeff Forester, Brendan Jordan, Maren Nowicki, Aaron Rubenstein (President), Scott Schiefelbein, Pamela Taylor and Howard Verson
Absent: Anna Matthes
AgendaThe meeting was called to order at 7:05 p.m. Motion, seconded to approve the agenda after adding a report from the Midtown Coalition and discussion of the MPS Chang-ing Schools Option initiative. Agen-da approved.
Midtown Greenway Coalition: Josh TollkanCARAG representative Tollkan stated that the Coalition participates in city land use planning efforts. While it does not take a position regarding a specific LRT align-ment, it looks to local neighborhood organizations to provide input on this issue. The Midtown Greenway Coalition supports a cross-town link (midtown connection) of the Hiawatha Light Rail Transit line with the future Southwest Cor-ridor Light Rail Transit line. The Coalition has taken a resolution that
acknowledges some neighborhoods’ support for LRT alignment through the Greenway, however, streetcar may not be the most viable transit option.
Community input and Announcements: Aaron rubenstein • Rubenstein announced that
the annual CARAG Garden Tour will take place this com-ing week. Times and assembly points are: Saturday, June 20, 10 a.m. at Gigi’s Cafe (36th Street and Bryant Avenue); Monday, June 22, 6:30 p.m. at Bryant Square Park; Wednesday, June 24, 6:30 p.m. at Dunn Brothers Coffee (34th Street and Henne-pin Avenue).
• Bryant Square Park Concerts are scheduled for Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
• Darlington, representing the Uptown Association (UA), reported that Day 3 of the Great River Energy Bicycle Festival held in Uptown on June 12 was well-received by the community. Neighborhood feedback includ-ed comments on the lack of food available at outdoor locations and requests to increase advance publicity of the event for next year.
• Lyndale Avenue reconstruction project: pavement of the west side of Lyndale Avenue will be completed and these lanes will be reopened by July 7.
• Controversy regarding the Park Board’s approach to re-pave-ment of the parking lot at the southeast corner of Lake Cal-houn concerns whether it is a simple maintenance project or a project of greater scale requir-ing citizen participation and approval.
MinutesMotion, seconded to approve CARAG meeting minutes for May. Motion approved with deletion of sentence stating that Matthes would provide the CARAG Board with copies of “hold harmless” agreements entered into by other city neighbor-hoods for similar events. The fol-lowing statement was substituted: During the discussion of the vendor contracts, Matthes was requested to send to the Uptown Market sample information from websites showing hold harmless agreements that other entities used with art fair/market vendors.
Treasurer’s report: Scott engel• Engel reported that the monthly
bank statement had yet not been received as of this meeting.
• Proceeds from the CARAG Super Sale funds will go into the CARAG Operations account. A total of $570 was collected from 57 sale participants, who paid $10 each.
• Advance ticket sales for the 27th Annual Hennepin Lake Community Wine Tasting net-ted approximately $1200, mon-ies which will benefit CARAG directly. Over 500 people attended the event. Proceeds from ticket sales at the door will be split among nine neigh-borhoods, yielding additional funds for CARAG. The event was sponsored by Hennepin-Lake Liquors and new sponsors, Cowboy Slim’s, Stella’s Fish Café and Great Clips. Feedback from attendees praised the selec-tion of wines, however, many noted that no food was provid-ed. CARAG extends its thanks to the sponsors and all of its vol-unteers, especially Pam Price.
• Engel suggested that discus-sion of CARAG’s Multi-year Financial Plan might be consid-ered at a Special Meeting of the CARAG Board. Motion, Sec-onded to cancel July’s CARAG neighborhood meeting and con-vene a Special Meeting of the CARAG Board to discuss the Plan. Motion approved. This meeting will be open to the pub-lic, venue to be announced.
Uptown neighborhood news (Unn) Treasurer’s report: Jill BodeBode reported that the UNN Bal-ance Sheet shows assets of $5,038.97 and liabilities (accounts payable) of $1,275.37, with equity totaling $3,763.60 as of June 16, 2009. Net profit from the June issue of the UNN totaled $121.54. Previous years’ revenues continue to help cover operating losses; efforts are
ongoing to increase UNN revenue. To raise visibility, the UNN staffed a table at the recent Hennepin Lake Community Wine Tasting.
CARAG reiterated its support for the success of the UNN. Motion, sec-onded for request of a detailed finan-cial plan from the UNN Managing Board to be submitted by August 13, which addresses the financial health of the UNN and provides an imple-mentation schedule toward the goal of restoring the UNN profitability. Motion approved.
Uptown Market: Brendan Jordan• The first Uptown Market (UM)
event will be held on Sunday, June 21, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fifty-six vendors will participate in this inaugural event, which puts the UM in the black even
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Thank you to the Hennepin Lake Community Wine Tasting Benefit sponsors:
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Thanks also to all the CARAG neighbors who sold tickets and volunteered for the event-especially Pam Price who
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the garden is educational.” Produc-ing some food for the café’s kitchen is secondary to teaching neighbor-hood residents and café patrons how food and flowers are grown. To that end, the garden is unfenced, visible from the street and entirely accessible. Paths invite people to wander between the beds, where each type of plant is labeled.
Danny’s garden is not only pragmatic but symbolic, for it flourishes at the confluence of two vibrant current trends: the local foods movement and the urban farming movement. In growing and later harvesting kale, garlic and chard to make soup to feed his customers, Danny is demonstrating the core tenets of these two move-ments, namely: to reduce fossil fuel consumption and emissions by minimizing the transport distance of food from farm to table (in this
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case, the distance is about 100 feet); to improve the nutritional value of food through organic practices; to ensure food safety by establishing a direct link between farmer and consumer; to educate the consumer by making food production and
processing more transparent, and to replace imperme-able, water-repel-lent urban surfaces like asphalt with nutrient-rich com-post and carbon-fixing vegetation. Perhaps the most important function of urban gardens like the one behind Common Roots Café is their effect on the people who tend them, eat from them or sim-
ply enjoy regarding them. Gardens bring people together, fostering rela-tionships. “Gardens,” states Danny simply, “build community.”
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Danny Schwartzman in his garden. (Photo by www.jeffrey-farnam.com)
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without additional merchandis-ing efforts. The UM will provide a formal update at the August CARAG meeting. CARAG has provided $500 toward start-up costs for the Uptown Market. The Market needs volunteers for three shifts: 9:30 - 11:15 a.m. for set-up; 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.; and 4:30 - 6 p.m. for clean-up and tear-down.
• Motion, seconded for CARAG to approve Megan Gamble as the eighth member of the UM Board. Motion approved.
• As stated previously, Matthes forwarded to the UM Board information from websites regarding “hold harmless” agreements entered into by other entities with art fair/market vendors. CARAG has requested that language regarding a “hold harmless” agreement be added to the UM vendor contract.
• Jordan distributed copies of the Uptown Market Volunteer Guidelines and will email the Uptown Market Vendor Con-tract to the CARAG Board for review.
Zoning Committee report: Aaron rubenstein• Rubenstein noted that a liquor
license being sought by the gas station located at 29th Street and Lyndale Avenue has been dis-cussed at recent LHENA and Whittier neighborhood meet-ings.
• A proposal has been advanced for redevelopment of the Rain-bow Foods parcel (LHENA neighborhood), which would entail construction of a new building to occupy the entire site. As proposed, construction would include a 3-story building providing two levels of parking and shops at street level, with Rainbow Foods located on the third level. Rubenstein attended the LHENA meeting at which the matter was discussed and raised concerns to the developer about the project’s design. City approvals will follow in August or September.
In connection with the pro-posal, Rainbow might sell or give back to the City property bordering 29th Street between Emerson and Dupont Avenues. Jordan raised concerns about the Uptown Market’s location in connection with the proposed
redevelopment project; those present recommended that CARAG formally express its concerns regarding the matter.
• In a matter related to the rede-velopment of the Rainbow Foods site, Jill Bode raised the issue of planting trees on the concrete median at the “break on Lake” at Dupont Avenue and Lake Street.
• Verson noted that a Subway sandwich shop is slated to open in the former Maytag Store at 28th Street and Lyndale Ave-nue.
• Plans for construction at the northeast corner of Knox Ave-nue and Lake Street have been modified to include erection of a 5-story building of 45 to 50 feet in height. Motion, Seconded to maintain CARAG’s opposition to the project and amend the language in its letter drafted in support of the Uptown Small Area Plan (USAP) and its poli-cies concerning development on this site to reflect the change in the height of proposed construc-tion. Motion approved.
nrP Update: Scott engelEngel distributed a letter received from the Greater Metropolitan Housing Corporation (GMHC) regarding a multi-unit property located at 3421 Hennepin Avenue in connection with CARAG’s “4+ Unit” Loan Program (rental prop-erty improvement program). One unit at this location is valuated at 121%, which exceeds the 110% loan-to-value requirement based on Hen-nepin County market value. GMHC sought CARAG’s input as to wheth-er it should deny the application or whether CARAG would be willing to override standard guidelines in order to allow GMHC to approve the application. Motion, Seconded for CARAG to waive standard requirements, with each request to be considered on a case-by-case basis. Motion approved.
Community engagement Committee: Scott Schiefelbein• Mark Hillyer reported that
Mark Hinds of the Lyndale neighborhood has been chosen to represent District 6 on the Neighborhood and Commu-nity Engagement Commission (NCEC).
• Schiefelbein reported that the goals of the CE Committee are to encourage increased attendance at CARAG’s Annual Meeting in September and to increase par-ticipation of CARAG residents at neighborhood events, particu-larly those residing beyond the northeast quadrant of CARAG.
Uptown Association (UA) Update: John DarlingtonDarlington reported that the Uptown Association has received a $23,750 grant from the Great Streets - Neighborhood Business Dis-trict Program to further activities related to ‘branding’ and develop-ment of marketing materials (bro-chures, website, banners) to promote Uptown businesses. Darlington dis-tributed a page depicting the pro-posed new logo, which is designed around the letters ‘UA,’ and sev-eral possible taglines. The CARAG Board expressed preference for design of a logo that incorporates the word ‘Uptown’, rather than ‘UA’.
executive Coordinator’s report: Scott engelEngel reported on his activities of the past month, which included working on the CARAG Super Sale, kickoff of the Bryant Square Park Concert Series, the Hennepin Lake Community Wine Tasting event and the upcoming CARAG Garden Tour. He continues to main-tain the CARAG website and send out CARAG E-Updates. Engel noted that CARAG’s email list has grown to include 260 names, which reflects significant progress toward his goal of building membership to
300 names this year. He also noted that the CARAG website received 650 hits in May, its greatest number to date.
Changing Schools Option Plan – Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS): Jeff ForesterForester discussed the Changing Schools Option in connection with the concept of “community schools”, with emphasis on creating a commu-nity school for the F2 neighborhood. Discussion concerned CARAG’s drafting a letter in support of ‘Changing Schools’ recommenda-tions. Motion, seconded for CARAG to write a letter to the School Board encouraging it to support the Dis-
trict by careful review of all propos-als. Motion approved. Forester will email a draft letter for review by the CARAG Board.
Adjourn Motion, seconded to adjourn at 8:50 p.m. Approved.
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East Calhoun Community OrganizationECCO reportECCO meets the first Thursday of each month, 7 p.m. at St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church, 34th and Irving. All ECCO residents are welcome and urged to attend.
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ECCO Board Meeting Minutes for June 4, 2009. (East Calhoun neigh-borhood monthly meeting) Minutes recorded and submitted by Robert Kean.
Meeting TimeMeetings are on the first Thursday each month at 7:00 p.m. located at St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church. The public is invited to attend.
Board Members PresentNancy Ward (President), Robert Kean, Glen Christianson, Gary Far-land, Ralph Knox, Carrie Menard, Michael Ekholm, Anders Imboden, Ruth Cain and Brad Durham.
Others PresentSarah Sponheim, Monica Smith, Kay Anderson, Jay Joyner, Ruth Elaine Hane, Conrad Schmidt, Liz Steblay, Marie Manthey.
Announcements and Open Forum• News from the Lakes District
Council April meeting:
The Park Board will move forward with the Lake Calhoun master plan. Community input meetings will be scheduled for this summer/fall.
• Conrad Schmidt is planning to re-chip the Loon Lake Trail for his Eagle Scout requirement. He is waiting for final approval by the Boy Scouts, a step he needs to have done before he begins the project.
• He will pass out fliers before he starts the project. NRP money will be provided to Conrad for the cost of the fliers.
• $100 was approved by the Board at the August 7, 2008
meeting to be given to Conrad for his efforts. He will be col-lecting the money when he has a time set for the project to be done.
• The 3249 Humboldt house:
• The owners are planning on demolishing it; the garage has already been taken down.
• The neighbors are worried about vandals living there.
review of May Minutes• The minutes were approved.
nrP Update• There was a Steering Committee
meeting on May 19. The Com-munity Building, the Environ-ment, the Parks and Recreation and the Housing working sub-groups were discussed. Note that the NRP Steering committee and the sub-groups are still open and interested community residents are welcome and invited to join.
• The Housing sub-group rep-resentative was not able to attend.
• Housing will need to be 70% of the Phase 2 budget, which is about $334,000.
• The Community Building sub-group will need a new leader.
• The Parks and Recreation sub-group has discussed some ideas with the Park Board and ini-tial estimates seem to be very expensive.
• The Environment sub-group has developed a list of several ideas and is gathering more information on costs/options.
• The next Steering Committee meeting will be on June 9.
• The Earth Day event was filmed, there is a DVD available.
• The film will also be aired on MTM Ch. 16 of cable through June.
• Live MSP: (livemsp.org)
It is a new website to attract resi-dents to neighborhoods. They would like info from each of the neighborhoods; ECCO needs to do a profile.
• Monica Smith will do the pro-file and people will be able to review it.
• There is space on the profile for a website link.
• Over Exposure:
• It gives photo artists grants to document change in neighbor-hoods. There is a presentation at the end of the project. Par-ticipating neighborhoods get a portfolio of the photos and rights to use them for one year.
• A motion was made to pay the $200 participation fee and accept the product. It was a tie vote and therefore failed to pass.
Committee reports• Board Membership
• A motion was made and passed to elevate alternate Glen Chris-tianson from alternate to full board member, to fill the posi-tion vacated by Elaine Beyer. Welcome Glen!
• Treasurer
• Glen Christianson also agreed to fill the vacant Treasurer position. A motion was made and passed to appoint Glen as the treasurer.
• Note that $700 was approved last month for the Minnesota Pops. Available grant funds will be checked and reviewed for our future actions.
• SECSE:
• Wine tasting is on.
• Volunteers will be notified by email of their volunteer time.
• People need to make sure to find the person in the slot ahead of them when they arrive for their shift.
• There are three main jobs- Tickets, Trash and Security, with Set-Up and Take Down.
• Volunteers of over one hour don’t need to buy a ticket.
• Remember to sell lots of tick-ets. The pre-sell money and extra tickets should be given to Michael after the event, not at it.
• Bike race:
• There will be a booth at the bike race for the Board.
• Nancy and Monica will put together things to hand out from that booth and coordi-nate the schedule.
• Sarah Sponheim is coordi-nating recycling bins for the event (see environment com-mittee report below)
• Logo/ T-Shirt:
Hennepin Lake Liquor for coordinating the event.
The sponsors:Stella’s Fish Cafe ’ Cowboy Slims ’ Great ClipsFor the delicious food, style and great service they make available locally to us.
Pat Fleetham, event director and Phil Colich, owner of Hennepin Lake Liquor for all their patience and effort to make this all happen.
And all of the volunteers that helped make this once again, one of the most enjoyable parts of the summer, and a great example how unique and exciting our neighborhood is.
Thank you all, and we are already looking forward to next year!
Sincerely,
The ECCO Board
The East Calhoun Community Organization greatly appreciates and would like to thank the following for making the 27th Annual Wine Tasting Fundraiser another great and successful event:
Thank you!
Tree Grants Expanded toInclude Emerald Ash BorerTreatment for ECCO
Up to $250 per property
will be reimbursed by ECCO
NRP funds for professional
treatment of elm trees to
prevent Dutch Elm Disease
and/or treatment of green
ash trees to prevent or treat
infestation by the Emerald Ash
Borer. This program has been expanded to include
trees on the boulevard and
on the owner’s property.
Contact Monica Smith,
ECCO NRP Coordinator
for application information.
phone: 612-821-0131
email: [email protected]
The ECCO Board is sponsoring barbecues* for residents of East Calhoun.
Wednesday, July 22
Dunn Bros parking lot
34th and Hennepin
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Contact Monica Smith,
ECCO NRP Coordinator
for more details.
612-821-0131 or
ECCO Summer Barbecues
Wednesday, August 19
Gateway Art Park
Lake Street at East Calhoun Pkwy
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. * Hot dogs and soft
drinks provided.
Please bring a salad
or dessert to share.
pleasejoin us!
Financial support provided by The Minnesota Bicycle Festival
Volunteering is a great way to experience the Uptown Art Fair. Positions include staffing bever-age booths, providing artist relief, hosting the Celebrity Art Auction, passing out surveys and more! You will receive free refreshment
vouchers and an Uptown Art Fair T-shirt.
Register soon to get your first choice of positions; deadline is July 15. Go to the volunteer tab at www.uptownminneapolis.com or con-tact Abby at [email protected] or at 612.823.4581.
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A draft of contest rules was presented for approval.
• The contest is open to all, to design a new logo for the East Calhoun Neighbor-hood. Designs must be original (submitter is responsible for veri-fying that the design does not include any trademarked logos.)
• Voting to select the winning design will be done at the Annual Meeting. Any attend-ing resident of the neighborhood will be allowed to vote.
• The selected logo will also be used on the first T-shirt design. In fol-lowing years contests may be held for new T-shirt designs (but not a new neighborhood logo).
• A motion was made and passed to approve the contest, with the change that designs must use no more than three colors.
• Contest details will be passed out at the bike race booth and there will be an ad placed in the UNN in July.
• Website:
• The website is ready to trans-fer the domain. The only con-cern is that the email addresses may not be transferred as well. This is a problem because the emails are linked to the web-site.
• The site will be changed over when the email issue is sorted out.
• Guerilla Grill-Outs:
• These will be impromptu neighborhood gatherings. The goal is to have one a month, during June, July and August.
• The first one is scheduled to be on June 25. The location is not finalized but may be at the electrical association building (Irving and 31st). A suggested alternate location was the sculpture park near Edgewater.
• The funds would come from the Board, and hopefully sup-plemented by food donations from local businesses.
• Environment:
• Organics Composting - Letters will be sent out by the city so people will know how to par-ticipate in the program. This
means you should not ignore letters from the city if you get them.
• At the bike race there will be recycling and organics com-posting bins.
• There will be five stations in addition to regular trash.
• Volunteers are needed - email Sarah Sponheim if you can help.
• The Emerald Ash Borer:
• It has arrived in St. Paul. It has not yet been positively detected in Minneapolis but it may be here.
• An insecticide treatment is available, but it needs to be done every year. A large tree could cost in excess of $150 per treatment.
• A motion was made and passed to broaden the NRP tree treatments program from just Elm to both Ash and Elm.
• Private trees will also be included, not just boulevard trees.
• Each home owner could receive up to $250 per property per year of grant money for treating their trees.
• Safety:
• Stroll Patrol will be starting up again in earnest. There will be information in the UNN. There may be a community meeting to help combat crime.
• Zoning:
• Compete Street resolution
• The resolution requests public authorities to consider not just cars, but all users of the street (e.g. transit riders, bicyclists
and pedestrians), when planning major changes to streets.
• A motion was made and passed to endorse this resolution.
• Lake and Knox
• The current design of the proposed develop-ment on Lake and Knox was reviewed and dis-cussed. To be constructed this project will need a Conditional Use Per-mit (CUP) from the city based on the planned height (max. of 56 feet) and proximity to the lakes (within the Shore-
land Overlay District).
• Several board members com-mented on parts of the design that they liked, especially
the restaurant/coffee shop with windows facing the park/lakes, and the public courtyard facing Lake Street. However, others disliked the design on the basis of general aesthetic principles and/or incompatibility with the char-acter of the area.
• A motion was made to oppose the granting of a CUP based on the wording and intent of both the Shoreland Over-lay District and the Uptown Small Area Plan (as articu-lated in a letter from Robert
“A motion was made to oppose the granting of a CUP
based on the wording and intent of both the Shoreland
Overlay District and the Uptown Small Area Plan”
- (On the Lake and Knox Development)
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Kean to the Board on May 23). The motion passed 8 to 2.
• It was noted that the project site is in the East Isles neigh-borhood and the CUP is opposed by EIRA (East Isles Residents Association) on similar grounds.
Because of time, the conflict of inter-est and LRT discussions were moved to the next meeting.
A motion was made and passed to have no meeting in July. The next ECCO Board Meeting will take place on August 7.
eCCO events
Stroll Patrol Meeting Tuesday, June 30, 7 to 8 p.m., Dunn’s, 34th and Hennepin.
Guerilla Grill-OutsWednesdays, July 22 and August 19, 6 to 7:30 p.m., at the Art Park on East Calhoun Blvd. and Lake St. Grilled food and pop provided. Bring a potluck dish to share.
National Night Out Tuesday August 4, call 311 to register and/or close street.
Labor Day Parade/Party Monday, September 7.
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community events calendarOutSidEbarbette 1600 W. Lake St. • 612.827.5710www.barbette.com Sun, July 12, 4pm-10pm – Bastille Day Celebration
City of Lakes NordiC ski fouNdatioNLake Calhoun • 612.604.5330www.tri-loppet.comSat, June 27, 9am-2pm – Tri-Loppet: A point-to-point off-road triathlon(paddle, run, mtn. bike) through the heart of Min-neapolis starting at Thomas Beach, Lake Calhoun.
MiNNeapoLis dowNtowN CouNCiLLake Calhoun • 612.376.7669www.aquatennial.orgSun, July 19, 10am-4pm – Aquatennial Beach Bash: The Aquatennial Beach Bash at Thomas Beach, Lake Calhoun includes special events such as the Milk Carton Boat Races and Sandcastle Competition. Bring your family and friends and enjoy the Best Days of Summer on the beach.
uptowN MarketW. 29th St. (btwn. Dupont & Lyndale)www.uptownmarket.orgSundays, July 19, August 16, September 20, 11am- 5pm, Uptown Market: Vendors include: Produce, Prepared Goods, Fine Art, Crafts, Used Goods, Antiques, Vintage Clothes.
VaiL pLaCe1412 W. 36th St. • 612.824.8061www.vailplace.orgSat, July 25, 9am-1pm – Tour De Vail: Raise funds to support adults with mental illness through a fun-filled family event.
(Editor’s Note: We will run community event listings every month on this page. Contact [email protected] to submit your event information by the 10th of each month to be included in the next issue.)
CLASSES /WORKSHOPS /LECtuRESMiNNeapoLis uptowN rotary CLub3205 Excelsior Blvd. • 612.926.2878www.uptownrotary.orgThursdays, July 9, 7:15am – Guest Speak-ers: Frank Vascellaro, July 16: Steve Kel-ley.
diSCuSSiOnduNN brotHers3348 Hennepin Ave.Tues, 7:30pm, WeeklyThe Socrates Cafe is an open meeting. The evening is spent discussing a short list of questions of philosophy that range all over the map from self identity, capi-tal punishment, perception and anything else in between. Bring your questions and prepare to engage your mind.
BOOK CLuBSwaLker Library2880 Hennepin Ave. S. • 612.630.6650www.mpls.lib.mn.usThurs, July 2, 7pm-8pm – Guys Read Jr. Book Club: For guys entering grades 2-3. Join other guys to talk about a great book. Guys Read is made possible by the Library Foundation of Hennepin County with generous support from the Best Buy Children’s Foundation and the Ann and Jack Cole Children’s Fund.
Roll & Stroll your way around Lake Cal-houn. Enjoy free food, live entertainment, games for kids, prizes and free fun as you raise money, raise awareness and raise hope for adults with mental illness. Reg-istration fee is $20 and kids under 11 free with paid registrant. Register online by July 14 to reserve a Tour de Vail T-shirt in your size or to purchase a T-shirt for $10. Those interested in becoming an event Sponsor or Volunteer can visit the agency website at www.vailplace.org or can ask questions by email at [email protected].
tHEAtERMiNNeapoLis tHeater GaraGe711 W. Franklin Ave. • 612.729.1071July 2-3, 9-13, 16-19, 23-25. 7:30pm, (2pm Sundays) – Girl Friday Productions pres-ents The Skin of Our Teeth, the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece by Thornton Wilder - an optimistic tribute to the invin-
dAnCEbryaNt Lake bowL810 W. Lake St. • 612-825-8949www.bryantlakebowl.comWednesday July 29 at 8:00 pm (7:00 doors) – 9x22 Dance/Lab: Produced and hosted by Laurie Van Wieren. Named for the mod-est dimensions of the BLB stage, this excit-ing dance showcase features unfettered dance exploration. A discussion moder-ated by choreographer/curator Laurie Van Wieren follows each piece, giving audience and choreographer alike the opportunity to react and explore the work together. $6-$10 (pay what you can)
KidS & tEEnSpaiNter park620 West 34th St. • 612.370.4911www.minneapolisparks.orgFridays, 10am-12pm – Free Painter Park Play Group: Inside Painter Park Rec Cen-ter (outside during good weather). Sing-ing and dancing 10:15-10:45am. Second Fridays of the month: arts and crafts activ-ity 10:15-10:45. Large motor activities and toys available. All ages welcome, parent or caretaker must be present. Mostly Pre-K ages attend. For more info, email [email protected]
muSiCbarbette 1600 W. Lake St. • 612.827.5710www.barbette.comMondays, June 26, 10pm – Late Night Music Series: Kid Dakota, July 6: Claire Taubenhaus, July 13: Supreme Privacy, July 20: James Buckley, July 27: Supreme Privacy.
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cibility of the human spirit and a comedy of epic proportions. “We came through the Depression by the skin of our teeth; one more tight squeeze like that and where will we be?” - Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth. This activity is made possible, in part, by funds provided by the Metro-politan Regional Arts Council through an appropriation by the Minnesota Legisla-ture.
4tH Of juLy !MiNNeapoLis park & reCreatioN board Minneapolis Riverfront 612.30.6400www.mplsredwhiteboom.comSat, July 4, 5pm-10:30pm – Fourth of July Celebration: Come down to the historic Minneapolis Riverfront and enjoy a day of great entertainment, exciting children’s activities and delicious summer foods. A spectacular fireworks show concludes the event at 10pm.
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