73 years andcounting

Meet the MurrayClass of 1943

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What do we do now?

Thoughts on theshooting of

Philando Castile

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A July 4 reprise

A few scenes fromthe Fourth in the Park

Pages 10 & 11

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By Kristal Leebrick

Residents’ concerns about trafficspeeds on St. Anthony Park streetsprompted the District 12Transportation Committee to launcha campaign to urge drivers to slowdown.

White signs touting “I Drive25” popped up throughout St.Anthony Park in June and feedbackso far has been positive, said JohnMark Lucas, a member of thecommittee.

More than 60 people signed apledge to drive 25 mph rather thanthe posted speed limit of 30 at theTransportation Committee’s booth atthe St. Anthony Park Arts Festival inJune.

Why drive 25?The campaign stemmed from

the citywide yearlong Stop for Mepedestrian campaign, which began inMarch. Volunteers with high-visibility clothing and high-visibilitysigns have gathered at high-visibilityintersections—including two alongRaymond Avenue in St. AnthonyPark and one at Lexington Parkway

and East Como Lake Drive in ComoPark—to raise awareness that driversmust stop for pedestrians atcrosswalks and intersections.

“If drivers were going 25 mph,it would be a lot more likely they’dsee pedestrians trying to cross thestreet,” said Pat Thompson, amember of the TransportationCommittee. “When you hear thestatistics on pedestrian deaths at

various speeds, it starts to feel prettyimportant.”

The standard speed on citystreets is 30 mph, which is governedunder state law.

Driving speed matters for tworeasons: stopping distance and crashseverity. The risk of pedestrian deathhit by a car traveling on a city streetincreases substantially with speed,according to the National Institutes

on Health. Death rates more thandouble between 25 and 32 mph, theNIH reported.

A 2016 St. Paul Roadway SafetyPlan put Como Avenue betweenEustis Street and Raymond Avenuein the top five segments of city streetsthat had severe pedestrian or bicyclecrashes between 2009 and 2013.That stretch of Como had a total of10 crashes, two of which wereconsidered severe.

“We do not have as much trafficas other streets,” Lucas said, “but thecombination of vehicle traffic,pedestrian activity and curving streetsincreases our traffic-accident risks.”

The Transportation Committeehas placed 20 signs in theneighborhood, mainly along entrypoints and along Como, Raymondand Cleveland avenues.

Feedback has generally beenpositive, Lucas said. “We have hadfurther requests for more signs andalso the ‘I Drive 25’ car magnet. Atthe same time, [committeemembers] have personally

I Drive 25 campaign hits the road

Largest K’NEX ball contraption in the worldbegan in a boy’s St. Anthony Park bedroom

Austin Granger’s K’NEX ball machine made the Guinness World Records. The contraption contains126,285 pieces, and Granger says it’s still a work in progress.

By Bill Lindeke

With 126,285 pieces, AustinGranger’s K’NEX ball machine isGuinness World Records–certified as

the largest in the world, quite anaccomplishment for a young manwho began building machines withthe plastic rod-and-connector

building system as a child in his St.Anthony Park bedroom.

Today his massive contraptionsits in a warehouse in northeast

Minneapolis, circling the LEGOdisplays at the offices of Brickmania,a custom LEGO-kit company.

By the time you read this, theofficial number will be different,because Granger is always tinkeringwith the plastic pieces of his machine.

“It’s still a work in progress, andI’m working on it all the time,” saysGranger of his always-evolvingstructure.

Granger’s “ball machines” usethe plastic trusses and tracks to createlooping tracks on which balls rollaround. It takes each ping-pong–sized ball on Granger’srecord-breaking machine more thansix minutes to complete the course.

The machine requires bothmeticulous planning and an artists’feel for improvisation and creativity,and Granger has both in spades.

“It’s a lot of improvisation,”Granger told the Bugle. “It’s very freeflowing and making it up as I goalong.”

Now Granger works forBrickmania, a 15-year-old companythat makes custom LEGO sets, oftenwith military themes. After videos ofGranger’s K’NEX machines built in

The St. Anthony Park Community Council’s Transportation Committeelaunched the “I Drive 25” campaign to encourage drivers to slowdown. Photo by Kristal Leebrick

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St. Anthony ParkThe District 12 CommunityCouncil meets on the secondThursday of each month at 7 p.m.at Jennings Community LearningCenter, 2455 University Ave. Tofind when council committeesmeet, go to www.sapcc.org or call651-649-5992. The counciloffices are located at 2395University Ave., Suite 300 E.

Sign up for SAP garage saleThe St. Anthony Parkneighborhood garage sale will beheld Saturday, Sept. 17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Register your sale by fillingout the form, which you canfind on the St. Anthony ParkCommunity Council website,www.sapcc.org/sap-garagesale/.

Submit the form with $15to St. Anthony ParkCommunity Council, 2395 W.University Ave., Suite 300E, St.Paul, MN 55114, by Tuesday,Sept. 15. The fee includes listingyour address on maps that willbe distributed at Hampden ParkCo-op, Tim and Tom’s SpeedyMarket and Craigslist; a garagesale sign that will be deliveredand picked up at your address;and ads in the Park Bugle,Pioneer Press, Star Tribune andon Craigslist.

Call Rich Nelson at 651-

Falcon HeightsThe Falcon Heights City Councilmeets the second and fourthWednesdays of each month at 7p.m. in Falcon Heights City Hall,2077 W. Larpenteur Ave. Contact651-792-7600 orwww.falconheights.org.

Night to Unite block partiesNight to Unite is Tuesday, Aug.2. This is a time to host a blockparty and get to know yourneighbors. For more informationon how to get started and whatresources are available, visitwww.falconheights.org and clickon “News” then scroll down andclick on “Block Parties.”

LauderdaleThe Lauderdale City Councilmeets on the second and fourthTuesday of each month at 7:30p.m. in Lauderdale City Hall,1891 Walnut St. Contactwww.ci.lauderdale.mn.us or 651-792-7650.

Farmers Market and Day inthe Park to be held Aug. 18Lauderdale’s Day in the Park wascancelled in July due to a highheat index and has beenrescheduled for Thursday, Aug.18, from 4 to 7 p.m. atCommunity Park, 1885 FulhamSt. Day in the Park will be heldin conjunction with LauderdaleFarmer’s Market and include awater slide, bouncy house,games, music, a puppet wagonand more.

The farmers market willcontinue on the third Thursdayof September and October.There is no charge to be avendor.

Please contact Susie atlauderdalefarmersmarket atgmail.com or 651-329-8401 foran application. The market islooking for musicians to play foran hour or so at each market.

Como ParkThe District 10 ComoCommunity Council meets at 7p.m. on the third Tuesday of eachmonth at the Historic StreetcarStation, 1224 N. LexingtonParkway. Contact 651-644-3889or www.district10comopark.org.

Organics recycling site opens Recycling your food scraps andother household organic wastejust got easier. District 10’s neworganics recycling site in ComoPark is now open on BeulahLane just north of the HumaneSociety.

There are many advantagesto using the District 10community drop-off site:

• It is closer than existingcounty yard-waste sites and isavailable 24 hours a day, sevendays a week.

• The site is free for allRamsey County residents.

• It is a great option for thosewho don’t have the space or timeto maintain their own backyardcompost pile.

• You can cut down on yourtrash bill and move closer to zerowaste: A typical household thatrecycles organic waste can cut itstrash volume by a third.

What you can recycle:Because waste dropped off at theDistrict 10 site goes to acommercial composting facility,it takes items that are almostimpossible to compost in yourbackyard. Acceptable itemsinclude food scraps (includingfruit, vegetables, meat, fish,bones, eggs, and dairy); coffeegrounds and tea bags; and papertowels, paper napkins, papertissues and pizza delivery boxes.

For a detailed list ofacceptable items, go to theOrganics Waste page atramseyrecycles.com.

Get started by setting up afood scrap bin in your kitchen.Line it with a compostable bag,and place food scraps in the binevery day. When the bin is full,deposit your scraps at theorganics recycling site.Compostable bags are availableat the District 10 office; a limitedsupply of bins and starter kits areavailable while supplies last.

The Como Park site is aninitiative of District 10’s ComoComposts campaign, with thecooperation and support ofRamsey County, St. Paul Parksand Recreation and the SolidWaste ManagementCoordinating Board.

Recycling bins available onSundays at Streetcar StationThe Historic Streetcar Station isopen from noon to 4 p.m. everySunday through the end ofSeptember. A District 10 boardmember will be on hand todistribute recycling bins,organics composting bags or totake your comments andsuggestions. The StreetcarStation is at Lexington Parkwayand Horton Avenue.

641-1172 for more information.Volunteers are needed to helpwith this event.

Joy of the People updateThe District 12 CommunityCouncil board passed aresolution asking the City of St.Paul to support Joy of thePeople’s (JOTP) proposal toresurface the tennis courts at therecreation center, located at 890Cromwell Ave. The resolutionincludes the caveat that bothparties sign a CommunityBenefits Agreement to addressneighbors’ concerns aboutaccountability from both the cityand JOTP. The council ishopeful that outlining somecommunity considerations willmake the relationship strongerbetween all parties.

A Joy of the People/SouthSt. Anthony CommunityCommittee is being formed tohelp brainstorm, discuss andfacilitate future projects andevents at the South St. Anthonypark. The committee will worktoward getting more communityinput about happenings at thecenter and establishing acollaborative dialogue betweenJOTP and the neighborhood.

The committee will meetquarterly. The first meeting istentatively scheduled forThursday, Sept. 8, at 7 p.m. atJoy of the People, 890 CromwellAve.

If interested in participating,contact Alex Manning atalex@joyofthepeople.org or 206-375-4331. If you don’t havetime to participate but havecomments, suggestions andconcerns about the park, pleasecontact Manning. This is thebest forum to make your voiceheard.

Environment Committee newsThe Environment Committee,

led by Betty Wheeler, kicked offan air-quality monitoring studythrough handheld devicesprovided by the MinnesotaPollution Control Agency. Theprogram will last through themiddle of August and will beposted on an online map.

Amanda Yang will soonpresent her Environmental GISmapping system to thecommunity. For more than ayear, Yang has been scouringpublic records to find the localhistory of environmentaldegradation and clean up inDistrict 12. Yang has abackground in GIS, holds amaster’s degree in urbanplanning and a bachelor’s degreein architecture. Her project hasbeen a collaboration with theUniversity of Minnesota’s Centerfor Urban and Regional Affairs(CURA) and the SoutheastComo Improvement Association(SECIA) in Minneapolis. Theproject tracks the history of theneighborhood by parcel back tothe 1800s.

Equity Committee newsThe Equity Committee hassurveyed the neighborhood onthe proposed tennis courtsresurfacing project at Joy of thePeople at 890 Cromwell Ave. inSouth St. Anthony. With morethan 170 responses, this was ahugely successful engagementprocess.

CURA and HumphreySchool of Public Affairs graduateintern Bettsy Hjelseth is midwaythrough her summer work onbridging the food gap in southSt. Anthony Park. She will besurveying low-income residentsin the area on their food needs inthe coming weeks.

Land Use Committee newsThe Land Use Committee will

New developer promises tightersecurity at Sholom Home siteBy Roger Bergerson

The latest development firmattempting to repurpose the formerSholom Home East site in theComo neighborhood has pledged toupgrade security at the long-vacantfacility.

David Grzan, representingCharter Midway LLC, made apresentation at the District 10Como Community Councilmeeting on June 21.

There, he assured residentsconcerned about nuisance and illegalactivity on the premises on MidwayParkway, just east of SnellingAvenue, that a new security firm hadbeen hired to patrol the property.

And Grzan agreed to meetagain with concerned citizens andcommunity representatives once thesecurity firm has had time to assessthe situation. That meeting has been

set for 7 p.m. Thursday, July 28, atthe Historic Streetcar Station, 1224N. Lexington Parkway.

Charter Midway, whichpurchased the property lastDecember, proposes to renovate thebuildings to create 168 seniorassisted-living units, including 30designated for memory care.

The site has been vacant since2009, when the Sholom care centermoved to a new campus at OttoAvenue and West Seventh Streetafter more than 85 years at theMidway Parkway location.

An initial proposal by a social-service agency to convert the facilityto housing for its clients created astorm of controversy. Since then,there also has been a plan toredevelop the site as anapartment/retail complex and, morerecently, a senior housing facility.

In the meantime, nearbyresidents have repeatedlycomplained of suspicious activityand vandalism in the buildings,portions of which have been open tothe elements from time to time.

Grzan told those at the Junemeeting that he and his partners areseeking $20 million in financing togut and remodel the property.

Kim Moon, who chairs theDistrict 10 Land Use Committee,offered his personal view on thesituation: “I remain hopeful that thecurrent owners will be moresuccessful than previous ones, butonly time will tell.

“It sounds like the most difficulttask in renovating the property isobtaining the financing, and itsounds like the current group mightjust be able to accomplish that. I’mkeeping my fingers crossed.”

District 10’s July 15 Ice Cream Social was a great time for all whoparticipated. Above, visitors celebrate the restoration of the historicstreetcar pedestrian bridge on July 15.

Ice Cream Social attendees weretreated to a cornucopia oftoppings.

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Murray class of ’43holds 73-year reunionBy Roger Bergerson

The Murray High School Class of1943 recently held a 73-year reunionat Rudy’s Redeye Grill in White BearLake and had a respectable turnout,especially since most of the attendeesare 91 years old this year. Eight gradswere in attendance, along with anumber of family members.

Most reunions are held everyfive or 10 years, so why the oddnumber for this one?

“We had reunions every fiveyears for quite awhile, untilsomebody pointed out that, at ourages, we ought to get together moreoften,” said Jim Manderfeld, a retiredDuluth auto dealer, one of the event’sorganizers and senior class presidentin 1943.

Manderfeld lived in his family’shome on Churchill Street, near LakeComo, during his school years and

recalls walking through Como Park,down Midway Parkway, through thestate fairgrounds, University ofMinnesota campus and St. AnthonyPark to get to the school.

He said the years during WorldWar II were an unsettling time forthe Murray senior boys. Some quitschool to join the military, othersenlisted and were allowed to finishhigh school, while still others waitedfor the draft.

A number of the Murrayalumni saw action in pivotal battlesin Europe, and several were killedwithin a year or two of graduation,Manderfeld said.

He doesn’t know how many ofhis classmates are still living, butchances are there are more womenthan men because of a slight genderimbalance in the class of ’43: 99 girlsand 59 boys.

By Anne Holzman

After eight years at Luther Seminary,Imliwabang Jamir has left forhome—in the city of Dimapur, stateof Nagaland, India—along with hiswife and two school-age daughters.

While many scholars doubtlessgo home with crates of books, Jamirand his family have transported anentire library to share with their city.Inspired by the children’s section ofthe St. Anthony Park Library, theypartnered with two neighborhoodchurches to set up a new NagalandChildren’s Library in rented space inDimapur.

Grants from St. Anthony ParkUnited Methodist Church and St.Anthony Park Lutheran Church willcover about half of the $7,500estimated cost of setting up thelibrary. In addition to books and thecost of shipping them, expenses willinclude rent, shelves, furniture and adehumidifier.

St. Anthony Park Libraryvolunteer Deena Strohman assistedJamir and his wife, Sashila Pongen,and will continue to serve as liaisonfor the project. As of June, Strohmanhad collected and catalogued morethan 1,200 books for the Nagalandproject, Jamir said.

They will continue to welcomedonations, especially if shipping costscan be covered for donated materials,he said.

Jamir, who completed hisdoctorate at Luther Seminary thisspring, and Pongen will resume theirposts teaching at the OrientalTheological Seminary in Dimapur.Pongen also studied at LutherSeminary, and their daughtersattended schools in Roseville.

The inspiration for theirNagaland library came fromwatching their daughters enjoybrowsing at the St. Anthony ParkLibrary, Jamir said, and realizing the

impact this would have on theireducation.

“Our children began to enjoygoing to public libraries, gettingplenty [of ] books on a variety ofsubjects,” he said. “When we sawthem learning a lot without havingto spend money, we rememberedhow we struggled so much not beingable to set aside a budget to buybooks for our children.”

When their girls were veryyoung, Jamir and his wife asked“both sides of our sisters to give ustheir children’s used scholastic booksto read to our daughters, becausethey were sending their children togood private schools.”

Jamir and Pongen could notafford to send their girls to privateschool, “and a majority of the peopleare like us: poor, educated families orpoor, uneducated families,” he said.“Dimapur, our hometown, is as bigas Minneapolis in terms ofpopulation, and we don’t have evenone children’s public library. But thisis true for all of Nagaland. Nagaland

does not have even one public libraryfor children.”

Nagaland, in northeasternIndia, borders Burma and was underBritish rule from 1826 until 1947,and English is the language ofeducation. But a strong oral traditionexists in various dialects, and Nagapeople do not have a strong literarytradition, Jamir said. This means thelibrary will have to be creative aboutreaching out, at least to start.

“At the moment, we are in theprocess of creating a contextualchildren’s library project model,”Jamir said. They have consultedWisconsin-born Anne Pellowski, ascholar, librarian and storyteller, whohas worked internationally with theWorld Council of Churches,UNESCO and many otherorganizations.

Pellowski suggested startingwith a “pocket library” format, inwhich large strips of fabric aremounted with pockets to holdbooks, and decorated to attract theinterest of passing children. Then, hesaid, she instructed him to “stuff thepockets with books, and hang thosein some homes of gifted storytellers(in villages).

“Other than that, we have yet toexplore other models as we are just atthe initial stage.”

While some village schools doteach in their vernaculars, Pellowskisaid, sometimes transliterating withthe Roman alphabet, the Nagalandlibrary will start with materialswritten in English. The project willalso support Dimapur teachers withbooks on pedagogy and materialsrelated to the courses they teach, asdonations permit. But the mainobjective is to offer reading forpleasure.

“The Indian system of learningis by rote and mostly includes

Members of Murray High School’s Class of 1943: front row, from left, Nora Post-Smeed, Bob Hagen, DonStevenson and Raleigh Nelson; back row, Dick Evans, Jim Manderfeld, Henry Ernst and DeanKullenkamp.

Imliwabang Jamir

Luther Seminary graduate headshome to India with donated library

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In late June, a Lauderdale man hoisted a red flag bearing the Nazi swastikain his backyard. The City of Lauderdale’s response to residents’ complaintsabout the flag was that it is the resident’s First Amendment right to fly thatflag. The Lauderdale man took the flag down after receiving a swarm of mediaattention. He claimed he was not “a neo-Nazi guy.”

A week later, just one and a half miles east in Falcon Heights, PhilandoCastile was shot and killed at a traffic stop by a police officer after telling theofficer he had a gun and a permit to carry that gun, something many believeis a Second Amendment right.

The officer’s lawyer told the Star Tribune on July 10 that the policeofficer used deadly force because of “the presence of a gun.”

The irony here is profound.Philando Castile would have turned 33 on July 16. He was a 2001

graduate of St. Paul Central High School and a longtime nutrition servicesemployee in St. Paul Public Schools. He worked at Chelsea HeightsElementary School in Como Park and ended his career as a supervisor at J.J.Hill Montessori Magnet School. Philando Castile was black.

On July 6, Philando Castile drove down Larpenteur Avenue on asummer evening with his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter, who sat inthe back seat of the car with the bags of groceries the couple had justpurchased.

He wasn’t speeding. He hadn’t run through a stop sign. Initially, policereported that he was stopped for having a taillight out and later said Castilewas stopped because he matched the description of a man who had robbeda nearby convenience store four days earlier.

Over the course of his life, Castile had been stopped nearly 50 times forminor traffic offenses. Philando Castile’s life ended on Larpenteur Avenue ata traffic stop on a warm summer evening with a child in the back seat of hiscar.

Philando Castile has family and loved ones who live in the Buglecommunity. He knew children who attended J.J. Hill who live here. He knewtheir parents.

Philando Castile was a part of our community. Had he had a differentskin color, he quite likely would be alive.

Our fear of each other is out of control. No one should be afraid ofbeing pulled over on a city street because of their race. Police officers shouldnot be so full of fear that they reach for a firearm as a first response. Andthere is no sadder statement on the troubles in our society than the fact thatprivate citizens feel a need to carry a handgun to feel secure.

When will we stop being afraid of people who don’t look like ourselves?To coin a phrase made famous by the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, we will

all feel safe when we all feel safe.—Kristal Leebrick

Our fear is out of control

The library is not for sale A group of St. Anthony Park residents, many of whom are gardeners whohave volunteered their time for years to plant and maintain the gardenssurrounding the St. Anthony Park Library, have launched a petition aimedat opening public input and ultimately stopping a land sale that could happenbetween the homeowners next to the library at 2399 Como Ave. and theCity of St. Paul.When the petition went live on the neighborhood listservJuly 12, some folks got the idea that the city was going to sell the library itselfor parts of the land surrounding the library that included the library gardens.Comments on the petition website ranged from assuming the city was goingto tear down the library and put up apartments or that the sale of the landin question was a revenue-raising venture.

The library is not going to be sold. And the gardens surrounding the99-year-old institution are safe. Here is what is happening:

In December 2015, a property line survey was conducted at the requestof the homeowners at 2399 Como Ave., as they were planning to put in anew fence and a parking pad along the alley. The survey revealed that up to3,400 square feet of land that the current and previous owners of the propertywere told were part of the lot they lived on is actually part of Lot 21, all ofwhich, it turns out, is St. Anthony Park Library property. Previous surveysover the last century had indicated otherwise.

The City of St. Paul and the homeowners have been working on asolution to the property line discrepancy since then. In the spring, the District12 Community Council passed a resolution asking Ward 4 council memberRuss Stark to halt negotiations until there could be public conversations about

the issue. Stark’s office informed the council that they did stop negotiationsbut stated later that he had heard from “various stakeholders and perspectives”to make a decision on the issue.

One solution could be a land sale, in which the city sells all or part ofthe land to the homeowners. If a proposal to sell the land is brought beforethe St. Paul City Council, the city will give a 20-day notice of a publichearing, which will take place at a regular St. Paul City Council meeting,according to Jill Boldenow, spokesperson for St. Paul Public Library.

Boldenow said no decisions have been made, but on July 14, Boldenowreleased this statement from St. Paul Public Library: “The library understandsthat there have been concerns raised in a petition; however, the library iswilling to explore a potential sale of land at fair market value to avoid thepossibility of protracted and expensive litigation over the property line at St.Anthony Park Library. The property being considered for sale is part of lot21 (not the entire lot).

“If the proposed new property line is established, the library willcontinue to retain all of the existing gardens that have been created bydedicated volunteer residents at this library. The St. Anthony Park Librarywill continue to support robust programming, inside and outside of its doors.The proposed sale would not diminish the library’s current level of activityor the beauty of the library property and its garden spaces.”

You can read about the petition in the Bugle’s “Letters” section, whichbegins on page 5. The letter regarding the petition and a map of the disputedproperty are on page 6.

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was wounded that day. We knowthis.

So neighbors, what should wedo now?

Let’s honor the memory ofPhilando Castile by supporting hisfamily to the extent we can. Let’ssend condolences to his loved onesand donate to the fund for DiamondReynolds and her daughter. Let’sleave ideas at his memorial. Let’s takein ideas left by others. Let’s look forways to help. As we do so, let us nottrade in low gossip about Castile’spast; such speculation should also besilenced by the gun. No morecharacter assassinations, please. Nomore eulogies spat out like hate.

Let’s leave room in our hearts forthe friends and family of OfficerJeronimo Yanez. Let’s comfort themif we meet them. They deserve ourcompassion and empathy. As forOfficer Yanez, I hope for him what Ihope for my daughter when shemakes a mistake: may he havehelpful consequences. May we holdhim accountable with strength andcompassion. May his consequencesoffer him, and those who shouldlearn from his tragic mistakes, the

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By Michael Kleber-Diggs

Philando Castile was killed on anavenue many of us travel as part ofour routines. The world watched hislife leak away. Castile was a child ofour city, our state. He was ourneighbor and probably knewsomeone you know. His loved onessay he was a beautiful man,respectful and kind, loved byclassmates and colleagues and thechildren he served in his work at anearby elementary school. Webelieve them. We see their truth ontheir faces. It looks like grief.

The day he died, PhilandoCastile was with his girlfriend,Diamond Reynolds. Reynolds’sdaughter was also in the car. Thehasty bullets missed them both. Forthat, let’s give thanks. But the childwas still there. We know this. Shesaw Philando’s white t-shirt overrunby crimson; she heard his anguishedcry and endured somehow as hermother’s calm succumbed to grief.She carried on while authorityobliterated every notion of OfficerFriendly for her, then stunned uswith her strength and poise. But she

best chance for growth andredemption.

Then, let’s look inward. AtPhilando Castile’s memorial site,you’ll find expressions of wisdom.You might find a cardboard sign onwhich was written “if you don’tunderstand, listen.” In the wake ofthis tragedy we have had, and wewill have, many opportunities tolisten and grow. We can learn aboutPhilando’s difficulties in ourneighborhoods and places like them.We might hear stories from friendswho recount similar experiences. We

might hold conversations withneighbors who disagree with us. Inresponse, let us listen. If anythingfrustrates our ability to listen, if weharbor any hate or intolerance, maywe admit it and challenge it andopen our ears and hearts.

Then, let’s look outward. Let’sbe candid about our neighborhoods.Do they welcome unfamiliar faces ordo they repel them? As you work andworship, as you study and play, asyou dance and dine, when yousurvey the photos of friends onFacebook, how many of the peoplelook like you? How many of themlive like you?

Let’s do research. As we studythe events of July 6, when difficulttruths emerge, let’s acknowledgethem. Let’s find the will to do better.No more spider-web policing here,please. No more racial profiling. Nomore unwarranted stops. Let’s shareunimpeachable core values thenmake sure our public servants reflectthose values, not undermine them.When we tire in this work, and wewill, let’s lift each other up and presson. Let’s hold each other accountablefor the communities we desire.

What should we do now?

He was loved by friends andfamily. But that changes nothing.

He was loved and respected athis workplace. But that changesnothing.

He went to our high school, St.Paul Central. But that changesnothing.

He was stopped for a brokentaillight. But that changes nothing.

By Kevin Dragseth

Philando Castile was my wife ToyaHodges Dragseth’s nephew, myfather-in-law’s grandson. But thatchanges nothing.

He was murdered in ourneighborhood, maybe a mile upLarpenteur from our house. But thatchanges nothing.

He had a permit to carry hisweapon, and declared it to the officer.But that changes nothing.

He was following the officer'srequest for ID. But that changesnothing.

He was a citizen with the fullrights and protections of the law tolife, liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness—including the bloody

Second Amendment. But thatchanges nothing.

I’m so sad, and so hopeless. Idon’t want to raise our children in aworld where these things happenevery single day, where the protectorshave become predators. Of course,seek justice against the killer,unquestionably. But how do wechange our world systemically, so it

How do we change our world?

And let’s never forget thistragedy. At the site where PhilandoCastile died, there is a sign hangingon one of the canopy tents. It reads,“What would Phil Castile want us tolearn from his death?”

I won’t speak for PhilandoCastile. As a black man who has livedmost of my life in white spaces, Iknow the ways of the wary. I knowwhen I’m not welcome. I have beenfollowed without just cause. I alsosaw Officer Friendly erased. So Ibelieve I know something ofPhilando Castile’s struggle, feelingtrapped in a web, unable to freeyourself, bound up while the venomdoes its agonizing work. But no, Iwon’t speak for him. Instead, I’ll tellyou that if it were me, shot down onthe streets of a city I considered myhome, a city I go on loving in spiteof myself, if it were me, I would hopemy memory would be for a blessing.I would want you would learn at leasttwo things from my death: we invitewhat we allow, and none of this hasto happen here.

Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet andessayist. He lives in Como Park.

Thanks to all who helpedcelebrate Philando Castile atJ.J. Hill Montessori SchoolI would like to thank everyone whocame out to celebrate the life ofPhilando “Mr. Phil” Castile with theJ.J. Hill community on July 10.

It was an event for families andstudents to grieve and comfort eachother, and it was also a place to talkto our children about the issues weface right now as a society. I wasplanning on maybe 30 to 50 schoolcommunity families and staff comingout, but nothing could have preparedme for what happened next. Oursmall community vigil gainednational media attention and grew tomore than 3,000 people.

I am heartened that thecommunity kept the event peacefuland focused on the man who affected

J.J. Hill in a positive and memorableway.

There are too many people tothank individually in a letter, butthere are a few people who helpedprepare me for what was to come. Ireached out to a few friends andsome people I have never met, whogave me sound advice and steppedup to help.

I am forever grateful to my wife,Mollie Reid Fragnito, Rep. ErinMurphy, Paul Winkelaar, Jeff Bauer,Atom Robinson, Chris Crutchfield,Andrew Collins, Sharon Freeman,Mr. Bill and Mr. Gary from J.J. Hill,Zuki Ellis, Rashad Turner, CharlieFoust, Anna Gaarnas and BethJackson. You all helped with logistics,and most important, gave me thevoice I didn’t know I had.

I also want to thank the St. Paul

Police Department and St. PaulPublic Schools for the help theyprovided with the vigil.

Finally, thank you to the familyof Philando Castile. You showedgreat strength and courage. “Mr.Phil” will be forever missed at J.J.Hill.

Tony FragnitoPast PTO chair at J.J. Hill

Legislators pledge to correctracial disparitiesMembers of the St. Paul delegationof the Minnesota Legislature jointlyreleased the following statement onJuly 11:

We, the members of the St.Paul legislative delegation,

Michael Kleber-Diggs

representing the neighborhoods ofMinnesota’s capital city, stand unifiedin grief over recent events impactingour communities and in ourdetermination to address the forcesthat have driven them.

We wish to convey ourcondolences to the family ofPhilando Castile for his tragic deathfollowing a traffic stop by local lawenforcement officers in a nearbymunicipality. St. Paul is a smallcommunity and some of us had tiesto Philando as he grew up in our city,attending our public schools, and asa public servant working in ourschools. We can only imagine thegrief the family is going through atthis time, as well as that of the manyteachers and students whose lives hetouched. We want them all to knowthat we stand with them in their Letters to 6

search for answers to what led totheir beloved son’s and colleague’sdeath.

We also wish to convey ourconcern for the women and menwho serve our city courageouslyevery day in providing public safetyfor the people of St. Paul. Theviolence they faced Saturday night[July 9], during a peaceful-protest-turned riot] is a stark reminder ofhow far we have yet to come inhealing racial divisions. Thisviolence against our police, whoconducted themselves withprofessionalism and honor againstindividuals who sought to harmthem, threatens the progress we seekto correct racial disparities. They, like

doesn’t keep happening in the firstplace?

Kevin Dragseth wrote this on his Face-book page the morning after PhilandoCastile was killed on Larpenteur Av-enue. Dragseth and his family live inComo Park.

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Letters from 5 west boundary line of Lot 21 runsthrough the Rotunda addition andcontinues 50 feet southeast. Aportion of this lot is the land the cityis proposing to sell. This portioncould include as much as 12.59 feetalong Como Avenue and as much as39.70 feet along the alley. We opposeselling any of this land withoutcommunity input.

As residents of St. AnthonyPark, we wish to express our dismaythat the city of St. Paul is consideringselling up to 3,143 square feet of ourlocal library’s land. Donated publicland, given to further the commongood, should not be treated as acommodity. A critical issue is that theland belongs to the City of St. Paulwith the library merely acting as acustodian. Therefore, the city needsto consider the interests of not onlythe library but the community andcity residents as a whole. That thisproposed transfer of donated publicproperty originally occurred with nonotification or involvement ofcommunity residents or the localdistrict council is very disappointing.

This is an especially crucial timeto preserve all the city’s open land forpublic use, given the increase indensity as new apartment buildingsare being constructed. Constructionis already approved and under wayfor two four-story apartment/co-opbuildings within two blocks of the St.Anthony Park Library. That willgreatly increase the need foradditional land for citizen use. St.Paul needs to look to its citizens as awhole and beyond the parochial useof the library when deciding whetherto give up any of its land.

Our Carnegie library is aneighborhood icon. The land it sitson was donated in the early 1900s bycivic-minded residents. The idealsand desires of those who gave theland should be honored by thosewho benefit from their foresight andgenerosity. The residents of ourcommunity have a long-standingand continued interest in theeducational value of library access forall its citizens. The garden that hasrecently been developed on libraryproperty is meant to further thateducational mission.

The library garden provides anattractive outdoor gathering place forour community. This is no ordinarygarden. It has evolved over a veryshort time into a beautiful andfunctional area designed to attractpollinators—bees, butterflies, birds.The garden is meant to further theresources of the library by using it to

This December2015 map showslot lines aroundthe St. AnthonyPark Libraryresulting from themost recentsurvey. Theshaded area justbelow thelibrary’s rotundais the disputedproperty area.

color—not just in the use of force bylaw enforcement, but in more stops,more arrests, more convictions andlonger sentences. And thesedisparities are just part of a series ofinequities. In terms of health,education, employment, income,housing and much more,Minnesotans of color suffer far worseoutcomes than white Minnesotans.Statistically, the fate of a child inMinnesota is determined far toomuch by the color of her or his skin.This is deplorable.

For too long we have ignoredthe open wound of racial injustice,outsourcing it to be solved by thecriminal justice system and puttingour law enforcement officials in theposition of managing its toxiceffects. As legislators representingcommunities impacted by the tragicevents of this past week, we resolve tocorrect racial disparities in our stateby pledging to do the following:

To actively cultivate publicparticipation in the legislative processamong underrepresentedcommunities—especially communitiesof color and Native Americans—without whose input we may notachieve just laws.

Not to levy blame upon police orprotesters for past acts, but to moveforward in a spirit of reconciliationand growth.

To allow the justice system todetermine appropriate remedies in adeliberative, accurate process.

Where justice system results are

the brave officers in Dallas on [July8], defended our city, and defendedthe rights of lawful protesters topeacefully assemble. We join Gov.Dayton in his condemnation of theviolence against them, and we echohis accolades over their commitmentto our safety.

We also recognize the starkreality that these protests eruptedbecause many of our constituents donot feel safe. The shooting ofPhilando, in light of the deaths of somany other citizens of color undersimilar circumstances, further erodesthe faith of the public in the criminaljustice system—a system annuallydebated by all of us at the MinnesotaCapitol while using words like“equality,” “fairness,” “safety” and“redemption.” The sincerity of thosewords are questioned by ourconstituents of color for whom thedeath of Philando is a fearfulreminder that, for them, justice isdifferent. The phrase “Black LivesMatter” acknowledges that for toolong, and far too often, black livesespecially have been valued as lessthan those of white citizens. Suchwidespread doubt about the integrityof the justice system is a threat to therule of law in a state predicated onthe principle that justice views allpeople the same.

Data shows that the criminaljustice system has a disproportionateimpact on our constituents of

broadly questioned, to examine andpursue changes in the law consistentwith our national values of fairness,tolerance, and freedom.

To advocate for transparency indecision-making, including full andrapid disclosure of governmentinformation collected withincommunities of color.

When the MinnesotaLegislature convenes in January2017, we hereby resolve, bothindividually and collectively, to takeactive measures to realize thesepledges.

All of us, policy makers and thepublic at large, will be judged byhistory for how we respond to thetragic events of this last month. Webelieve in the goodness and powerthat comes from all of us coming andworking together across racialcommunities. We are committed toadvancing and defending the dignityof all residents of the city we love andproudly represent. It is up to all of usto learn from our mistakes, and torespond in a positive way. We will doour part, and hope for the same fromall of Minnesota.

Sen. John Marty, Rep. Alice Haus-man, Rep. John Lesch, Rep. Erin Mur-phy, Rep. Rena Moran, Sen. Richard

Cohen, Sen. Sandy Pappas, Sen. FoungHawj, Rep. Carlos Mariani, Rep. Tim

Mahoney and Rep. Dave PintoMinnesota State Legislature

Neighbors petition city overdisputed library propertyIn 1914, Andrew Carnegie gavemoney to the City of St. Paul forthree branch libraries, including St.Anthony Park, with the stipulationthat each community must raisefunds to purchase the land on whichthe library would be built. TheImprovement Association of St.Anthony Park raised money topurchase two lots closest to theintersection of Como and CarterAvenues, Lots 23-24. However, moreland was needed to satisfy thearchitect’s plans.

Edward and Grace Freeman,neighbors across the alley at 2196Carter Ave., donated the necessarythird lot, Lot 22. Even then there waslittle or no room for green spacearound the library and, when thelibrary officially opened in 1917,Grace Freeman donated the fourthlot, Lot 21. Without her gift, theChildren’s Rotunda addition of 1999would not have been possible. The

teach our children and others aboutthe interactions between humanityand the environment. The pollinatorgarden has been planted at little or nocost to the city by dedicatedvolunteers who consider it aninvestment in our neighborhood’sfuture.

This issue involves substantialpublic land that belongs to all ourresidents. A misunderstanding ofwhere the property line is does notmake a viable argument for sellingproperty. It is not necessary orsensible to sell donated public land torectify an individual’s mistakenassumption.

We oppose any sale of thelibrary land. Since this issue involvespublic land, more public input isdefinitely warranted and necessaryfor our community.

We have posted a petition forneighbors to sign atwww.ipetitions.com/petition/st-anthony-park-library-land-sale.

Carol Herman, Mary MaguireLerman, Virgil Larson and David Fan

St. Anthony Park

Street Machine Nationals wasshowcase of horrible behaviorFor three days, July 15-17, theMinnesota State Fairgrounds hostedthe O’Reilly Auto Parts StreetMachine Nationals, touted on thefairgrounds website as a “showcase ofover 5,000 street machines andmuscle cars.”

A large portion of theseexcessively noisy cars blasted throughthe neighborhoods surrounding thefairgrounds, causing residentsextreme aggravation and stress. As ifthat wasn’t enough, the recklessdrivers seemed to enjoy making theircars even louder by stomping ontheir gas pedals, speeding up to wellover the speed limits andendangering everyone’s safety.

I call on everyone who wasoutraged at the terrible behavior ofthese dangerous drivers to follow mein doing two things. First, contact thefairgrounds via their website atmnstatefair.org and urge them tonever host this horrible event everagain. And second, contact O’ReillyAuto Parts and tell them that you areboycotting their stores until theycease sponsoring the Street MachineNationals.

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cloud of bats, and the backstage areaswere long unused and very funky,but we had, for the first time, apermanent home. People would lineup an hour or so before the show forfirst-come-first-served seating, andI’d see the same smiling faces eachweek as I entered the theater.

I guest-hosted the show threetimes. The first time was planned inadvance, to allow Keillor and then-producer Margaret Moos to take avacation to San Francisco. Pullingthis duty was bad enough, becauseGarrison had already become thealpha and omega of the show, but atleast the audience knew in advancethat he wouldn’t be there. Worse wasa time I subbed for him at the lastminute because he had the flu. Noone in the audience knew he wasn’tgoing to be there, and the combinedsigh of disappointment of 1,400people when I walked out on stageinstead of him almost blew out theWorld Theater’s windows.

I’ve written sporadically for theshow: Bertha’s Kitty Boutique, Jack’sFountain Lounge, the occasionalGuy Noir script. Garrison’s had anumber of writers, but 99 percent ofwhat he’s said on the radio hasbubbled out of his own head.

As an on-air dramatis personae,I was the hip jazz lover who grumpilyendured the old-time string bandmusic I was forced to play, and I wasthe unofficial spokesman for Jack (ofthe Fountain Lounge), who sharedmy downtown musical tastes.

Touring with the show changeddramatically over the years. We firstused a van with a trailer on the back,but soon switched to a large motorhome and added a box truck, drivenby engineers Buzz Kemper and Tom

By Adam Granger

The departure of Garrison Keillor ashost of A Prairie Home Companionhas triggered memories of my 40-year association with the show andwith him.

In 1974, I was living inOklahoma and ready to move. Thequestion was where. I had beenwriting on assignment for NationalLampoon Magazine, and they hadinvited me to move to New York. Myother choice was Minnesota, where Ihad no prospects, but my motherwas from St. Paul, and I had come upoften on vacation as a child and lovedthe state. Honestly, moving to NewYork City was too scary a prospect so,in June 1974, my wife and I packedup our VW van and moved to theLand of Lakes.

I took a job at the GuthrieTheater, but soon started playing soloat the Coffeehouse Extempore, onMinneapolis’s West Bank. It wasthere that Keillor heard me andeventually hired me to play guitar inwhat was to be the first permanenthouse band for the Companion, thePowdermilk Biscuit Band.

It was already clear at that pointthat the show was going to surviveand flourish, but it had nopermanent home, so we played inmany venues: the small theater inPark Square Court, theO’Shaughnessys at both St. Kate’sand St. Thomas, the University ofMinnesota St. Paul Campus StudentCenter, the First Unitarian Society ofMinneapolis and, frequently, thetheater in the old Science Museumof St. Paul or its sculpture garden.

This last venue was a challenge:the weather bureau would be called,and an indoor-or-outdoor decisionwould be made a couple of hoursbefore airtime. We only got it wrongonce, when rain hit mid-show andwe had to stop the broadcast forabout 20 minutes while everyone—audience included—humpedinstruments and technical gearinside.

Around a year later, the WorldTheater (cum the Fitzgerald Theater)was acquired. There was a falseceiling covering the second balcony,which made a happy home for a

Keith (later to become MPR’s Jim EdPoole, and still later—as Tom Keithagain—the Companion’s first soundeffects man).

My first inkling of Tom’s skills ofmimicry came when I was drivingthe box truck on Highway 2 towardBemidji late one night with himsitting next to me. I heard a sirencoming up behind me and, cursing,began to slow down. I looked forflashing lights in my rearview mirror.All was dark. Then I looked at Tom,who was grinning. He had done aperfect imitation of a siren as it wouldsound coming toward me from 500feet back through a closed window.

The early tours were centeredon the dozen or so cities from whichthe show was broadcast, but oftenincluded small towns like Chatfield,Lucan and Olivia. Latter-day touringwas done by chartered bus, planeand, in the cases of the Prairie HomeCompanion cruises, ship. These lasthave afforded me the opportunity tosee dozens of countries in the onlymanner a professional musician islikely to see them: as parts of workingtrips.

As my buddy Howard Mohr—he of How to Talk Minnesotanfame—would say, my experience wasa heckuva deal. I wish I could closethis piece by claiming that I saw theKeillor genius from the get-go, butthat would be a lie. And I don’t thinkany of us musicians imagined, in1975, where A Prairie HomeCompanion would end up. But I’dbet the bank Garrison did.

Adam Granger lives in St. Anthony Parkwith his wife and dog, Molly, and is aregular contributor to the Park Bugle.

Early days at Prairie Home Companion, from left: Garrison Keillor, Butch Thompson, Bob Douglas, AdamGranger and Mary DuShane.

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his parents’ St. Anthony Park homewent viral on the Internet, he caughtthe eye of Brickmania founderDaniel Siskind, who hired him tobuild a custom machine inBrickmania’s warehouse offices. Witha generous budget and a cavernousformer factory setting, Granger spentthe next six months working fulltime, planning and building themachine.

“First, I get a sense for whatspace I’m building in,” Granger said.“This is by far the largest space I haveto work with. I thought, ‘Oh, mygod, how am I ever going to makesomething that fills this up?’ So Istarted building the truss frameworkthat you see everywhere. I keptadding on to give me a skeleton, andthen started adding these liftingmechanisms and tracks wherever Ihad room.”

The result leaves you wide-eyed.The size itself is almost impossible tocomprehend. On one wall, themachine runs along beams 20 feet inthe air before crisscrossing along arafter. Small plastic balls constantly

When Austin Granger began to plan the building of a K’NEX machine in Brickmania’s northeastMinneapolis warehouse, he thought, “Oh, my god, how am I ever going to make something that fills thisup?” Photos by Bill Lindeke

glide along the winding multi-layered tracks, clicking and clackingin an almost meditative high-pitchedsound reminiscent of rain falling infountains. As the machine settlesalong the far wall, it becomesimpossibly complicated, a series ofmotorized elevators, conveyor beltsand interchanges that end updepositing balls in a vast wishingwell-style whirlpool where dozensswirl around at once.

And like a life form or a city, it’sconstantly growing and adapting.

“One thing I really love is thechallenge of how do you work onsomething like this withoutinterfering with its functionality,”Granger explained. “When I’m hereat the open house, I try never to shutit off. Even if I need to take a trackout, I do it with as little interruptionas I possibly can.”

The largest single part of thestructure is the bridge along the eastside of the room, which Grangermodeled after a dual-suspensionbridge in Pittsburgh. Like any goodcivil engineer, Granger built aredundant 20,000-piece bridge thatcan hold more than three times itsweight. It took seven people toelevate it into place 40 feet in the air.

“It’s a very rubbery plastic,”Granger said, describing the K’NEXrods. “It’s this rod-and-connectorsystem like a Tinkertoy, so the waythe geometry is designed, it’s reallygood at making triangles and truss-type shapes. It’s capable of more

free-form curves, but it’s a bit moredifficult, and you have to bend andstress the pieces a little.”

The complexity and materialquality of the structural members areone reason why Granger is constantlymaintaining the machine.Occasionally entropy strikes, ballspop off or tracks dislodge. But theresult is a world-recordaccomplishment.

“This is actually the first timeanybody has tried to get this worldrecord,” Granger said. “Not havingto verify against anybody else, ifanybody wants to come along andbreak this record, they have tocompare their piece count againstmine.”

Even before he began buildingthe machine, Granger had his eyes onsetting a world record. As he orderedthe machine’s thousands of pieces oneBay, he used highly sensitive scalesto count them. When the Guinnessrecord-keeping team reached out tohim, he was ready with careful videosand accounting details, enough toguarantee his record as having thelargest K’NEX ball contraption inthe world.

“I started from the ground upwith the intention of being a worldrecord,” Granger explained. “Thebudget was large and the size I had towork with, I figured it should bepretty easy to make a world recordwith this.”

Turns out, “it’s not easy, but it’sfeasible,” he said, acknowledging thesize of the machine.

You can see the machine duringBrickmania’s open hours, the secondSaturday of every month.Brickmania is located at 1620 N.E.Central Ave., Minneapolis. Grangeris likely to be there working on it. Itoffers a rare chance to see a genius inhis element, creating something aweinspiring.

Bill Lindeke is an urban geographer andwriter living in St. Paul.

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History: One darn thing after anotherRoger Bergerson chronicles our remarkable past

Residents pitched in to get public golf course at Como In the early 20th century, being agolfer around here meant belongingto a country club. There were nomunicipal courses in St. Paul, oranywhere in Minnesota, for thatmatter.

But the general public’s growinginterest in the game eventually led tothe opening of courses at PhalenPark, Highland Park and finally,Como Park, the latter cobbled-together from a developer’sunwanted land and two dried-uplake beds.

Said Louis Nash, St. Paul’scommissioner of parks andplaygrounds, in 1915, “The game ofgolf today is confined to the rich forthe only reason that it requiresnumberless acres to permit the gameto be played; hence we have onlyprivate golf links in theneighborhood of our city. Stepsshould be taken to lay out publiclinks at Como and Phalen parks, ifpossible, so that those of our citizenswho cannot afford the luxury ofexclusive club membership, should atleast enjoy the privilege of playing thegame.”

Phalen got its links in 1917,Highland in 1928 and Como in1930. (The University of Minnesotapurchased the nine-hole MinnepauGolf Course at Cleveland andLarpenteur avenues in 1926 and thatevolved into today’s Les Bolstad GolfCourse.)

There had been talk of a coursein Como Park going back to 1905,the favored location at the time beingwest of the city workhouse (the siteof the water park today), in thegeneral vicinity of what is now theComo Woodland OutdoorClassroom.

While interest remained strongover the years, little progress wasmade until the 1920s, when cityofficials gave up trying to keep waterin Cozy Lake and the northwest armof Lake Como. (Cozy Lake was inthe valley north of the park’s JapaneseGarden, where holes No. 5 through9 are today, while the portion of LakeComo in question was on the westside of Lexington Parkway, the

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There were several driving ranges and at least one miniature golf course operating around the Snellingand Larpenteur avenue intersection during the 1920s and 1930s. The Cross Roads range was on thenorthwest corner and the few nearby residents complained of the lights at night.

Practice putting at Como in about 1940. Photos courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society.

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Fourth of July repriseThe 69th annual Fourth in the Park celebration in St. Anthony Park included a parade down Como Avenue, apatriotic program at the Langford Park bandshell, music, kids activities and an Instagram scavenger hunt. The winnerof the scavenger hunt was Emylee Wolfe of Como Park. She won a GoPro camera.

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4-mile openMale: Como Park High School graduate Innocent Murwanashyaka of St. Paul, 21:33 Female: Roseville High School graduate Toni Salvatore of Minneapolis, 26:51

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At top, Como Park Senior HighSchool Marine Corp JROTCcolor guard at the openingceremonies at Langford Park.Photo by Lori Hamilton

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the eat beatthe eat beat

By Alex Lodner

When Becky Moosbrugger took overBonnie’s Cafe from her mother,Bonnie Rolle, she never imagined anend to the legacy her mother started38 years ago. The family-owneddiner, which began its humble life onUniversity and Western avenuesbefore moving to its last location onUniversity and Vandalia Street 34years ago, was a belovedneighborhood breakfast joint whereRolle served anyone who needed agood meal, whether they couldafford it or not.

When she died from pancreaticcancer in 2013, Moosbrugger tookover, imagining she would pass it onto her own children. But that was notto be. This winter Moosbruggerfound out landlord M&J Enterpriseswould not renew her lease. It was ashock to Moosbrugger and a big lossto the community.

After Bonnie’s lease was not

renewed, M&J Enterprisesapproached the Dubliner abouttaking over the space.

The pub will open a cafe laterthis summer. According to proprietorGeri Connelly Scanlon, the space hasbeen buffed up but the old-fashioneddiner vibe will remain.

“We are reusing some refinishedbooths and stools. We kept some ofthe original items, but put our owntouch on it,” she said. “There areartists creating art pieces on thetables.” As a nod to Bonnie’severlasting imprint on theneighborhood, one of the tables willinclude photos of some of Bonnie'spast patrons, taken from bulletinboards left behind after it closed.

Chef Bill Nieman has beenbrought on to offer an approachable,Irish-influenced menu. “There willbe some Irish staples like Guinness-battered fish and chips, but it’s not allIrish food,” Nieman said. “We still

want the breakfast diner feel, so I willhave standard breakfast fare thateveryone counts on.”

He is also bringing in higherlevel entrees like eggs benedict withsalmon, pulled pork, burnt-endsbrisket and chicken-fried steak withsalsa verde. “I want the essence ofhome-cooked but elevated,” he said.Nieman plans to bring in a meat-and-cheese tray from Red Table MeatCo. and Lone Grazer Creamery fromIrishman Kieran Folliard’s FoodBuilding in Northeast Minneapolis.Nieman has hired Kate Mudge,formerly with Colossal Cafe, to craftfresh pies and other goodies daily.

The cafe will open at 7 a.m. forbreakfast and lunch and close at 3p.m., when the kitchen will beginserving the pub for happy hour anddinner until 11 p.m.

Alex Lodner writes about food and com-munity news regularly in the Park Bugle.

Dubliner cafe to open late summer,will offer ‘elevated’ diner fare

Art, kids play space, music, foodpart of Summer Blowout Aug. 6We all need a little blowout toremind us that there’s a lot ofsummer left come August. AndSummer Winter Studio’s secondannual Summer Winter SummerBlowout on Saturday, Aug. 6, atVandalia Tower should help.

The event has expanded from amusic showcase to a festival featuringart, five bands, kid-friendly stuff,food and beer from the Tower’s Lake

Monster Brewery.The Blowout will run from 3 to

10 p.m. at 550 Vandalia, the officialname for the campus, which islocated at the corner of VandaliaStreet and Wabash Avenue, justnorth of I-94 and south of UniversityAvenue.

Paikka Event Place will featurethe work of 12 area artists. ForageModern Workshop will host a kids

play space in the room next to thegallery at Paikka. The room will betransformed into a tent with rugs andscreen-printed artist-made pillowsinside. The Forage folks say “it’sgoing to be really special” and adultswill be welcome to play inside it too.Vandalia Glass Works and LeatherWorks Minnesota will have boothsshowcasing their work.

The Blowout is being put on bySummer Winter Studios and severalother Vandalia Tower tenants andlocal businesses. Music will start at 4p.m. Musicians include Gramma’sBoyfriend, Sam Cassidy, Verskotzi,Matt Latterell and Wingman.

Tickets are $8 in advance and$10 at the door. Children 12 andunder are free. Find out how to buytickets and more atsummerwintersummerblowout.com.—Kristal Leebrick

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Business News

By Marlee Leebrick-Stryker

Como Avenue just got a little moreZen. Healing Elements, a wellnesscenter with a holistic approach tohealing, opened in April in theformer Peapods/Mischief spot at2290 Como Ave. The business wasformerly located in northeastMinneapolis but moved to St.Anthony Park because they neededmore space.

Healing Elements was openedin 2014 with the goal of accessibleholistic healing, said ownerSamantha Huet.

“We offer such a range of classeson our daily schedule, and we haveunique therapists and professionalsthat all serve different types ofpeople,” said Huet, who bought thebusiness in January from the formerowners. “The best part is that we arean independent, grassroots company.We value our collective and alwaystry to give community members thespace to bring forth their own healingqualities to the neighborhood, aseach one of us has something specialto share.”

The classes and services found atHealing Elements are varied andunique. There are seven types of yogaclasses offered on weekdays and fouron Saturday and Sunday. Otherservices offered include therapeuticmassage, astrological and intuitivereadings, and a large selection ofherbs as well as other retail items,including clothing and jewelry.

The move east has been good on

many fronts, Huet said. It was apractical necessity because theHealing Elements group neededmore space and so far, St. Paul hasbeen welcoming.

“The response has been positiveand we feel our center has been wellreceived so far,” she said. “We’rehoping to continue serving more andmore new people every day as wehave the space for it. We have such

Store brings good vibrations to Como Avenue

Above, Healing Elements assistant manager Lydia Zinn and customer Brandi Copper discuss the bulk herb selection available at HealingElements. The photo at right shows a detail of some of the retail items at the store. Photos by Lori Hamilton

Studio on Fire to host grandopening and print fair July 29Studio on Fire, a craft letterpressprinter that recently opened at 825Carleton St. in South St. Anthony,will host a family-friendly grandopening on Friday, July 29, from 1 to7 p.m.

“A Print Fair” is part of theCreative Enterprise Zone’s We MakeIt Here happy hour series. Attendeeswill see the craft print company’sartisan, beautiful, tactile work, whichencompasses business cards,packaging and invitations. The day’sevents include projects on presses forprint giveaways, a steamroller withlarge moveable type printing a posteron the sidewalk outside, and foodand beverages from local vendors.

Just over a decade ago, graphicdesigner Ben Levitz set up his firstantique letterpress machine in hisbasement and began transformingthe artisan print business in the TwinCities. His new venture grew intoStudio on Fire, which specializes inthe art of “pressure-based printing,”which includes letterpress, foilstamping and engraving. Levitz’sclient roster includes agencies anddesign firms around the world.

Levitz moved his operation andits 1950-60s-era presses to awarehouse basement in northeastMinneapolis. When the building wassold, the business moved into aformer semi-tractor service garage,later used for an adult-arts program,

on Carleton Street. While moving Studio on Fire’s

15 employees and dozens of heavy-duty machines Levitz came up withthe idea of adding a retailcomponent. He talked with longtimefriend and client Dan Anderson atDogwood Coffee, who lives in St.Anthony Park. He had a number ofcoffee shops in the Twin Cities butnone in his own neighborhood.

Anderson and Levitz lookedover the building and decided tocreate a Dogwood outpost withwindows looking into Studio onFire’s production facility. Nowclients, visitors, neighbors and coffeeshop aficionados can grab an espressoand watch the pressure-printingmachines and their operators atwork.

“It’s sort of like a tap room,”Levitz said. “People literally get a

window into the physicality of whatwe do.”

While most of the printingindustry has gone to bigger, fasterand cheaper, Levitz said, “we makethings people want to touch, feel,enjoy, look at and hang on to forawhile.”

Creative Enterprise Zone: WeMake It Here is a project designedto celebrate and promote economicdevelopment in the CreativeEnterprise Zone (CEZ), St. Paul’scenter of creativity and enterprise,located mid-city between St. Pauland Minneapolis.

The goals of We Make It Hereare to build connections betweencreative enterprises and increase theirvisibility in ways that supportbusinesses. Learn more atcreativeenterprisezone.org.

an amazing clientele that followed ushere to the [St. Anthony Park]neighborhood. It warms my hearteach day to see our sustainingmembers and regular clients drop infor a class and choose HealingElements to pick up a gift for theirfamily.”

So what can folks who arecurious about Healing Elementsexpect going in for the first time?

Huet has this message: “Themoment you walk into HealingElements, your vibration will lift. Ifyou’re looking for a community, helpin making a commitment to yourself,unbiased guidance or a cup of reallygood tea, come see us!”

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Cycle ‘Round the World!No, not bicycle, but a cycle of folk music from around the world!

Sunday, August 28, 4 p.m.St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church, 2323 Como Avenue, St. Paul

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St. Anthony Park Recitalists andPrevailing Winds Woodwind QuintetHear the U.S. premiere of A Cycle ‘Round Britain, arranged by Go.Richards, and other folk songs from around the world for choir and woodwind quintet - a rare combination!

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AUGUST

EventsVenue information is listed at the endof the calendar. Send your events tocalendar@parkbugle.org byWednesday, Aug. 10, to be includedin the September issue.

2 TUESDAYRoe Family Singers, old-time hillbillymusic, 10:30-11:30 a.m., St.Anthony Park Library.

South St. Anthony National NightOut potluck: join neighbors atHampden Park (at Hampden andRaymond avenues), 6 p.m.-dark.Bring food to share, your own dishesand eating utensils, a blanket or lawnchairs. Lemonade will be provided. Allare welcome. Questions? Call NancyDilts, 651-646-1803, or AlisaWeber, 651-646-4363.

3 WEDNESDAYEnglish Conversation Circles, everyWednesday in August, St. AnthonyPark Library, 4-5:30 p.m.

St. Anthony Park Book Club,“Redeployment” by Phil Klay, St.Anthony Park Library, 6:30-8 p.m.

4 THURSDAYCaregiver Support Group, firstThursday of each month, St. AnthonyPark United Church of Christ, 10-11:30 a.m.

Bereavement Support Group, firstThursday of each month, St. AnthonyPark United Church of Christ, 10-11:30 a.m.

Sunrise Bank Customer AppreciationBarbecue, in the parking lot at 2300Como Ave., 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Middle School Book Club, forstudents going into grades 6-8, comediscuss “A Mango Shaped Space” by

Wendy Maas, St. Anthony ParkLibrary, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Pick up acopy of the book at the libraryinformation desk before Aug. 4.

Dialoggers Toastmasters meets everyThursday of the month, U of M St.Paul Campus, Northern ResearchStation, 1992 Folwell Ave., 11:30a.m.-12:30 p.m.

5 FRIDAYMini Maker Story Time in English, forpreschool and early elementary-agedchildren, St. Anthony Park Library,10:30-11:30 a.m.

6 SATURDAYSummer Winter Summer Blowout,550 Vandalia St., 3-10 p.m. Music,food and art. $10 at the door.

9 TUESDAYDazzling Dave, Yo Yo Master, St.Anthony Park Library, 10:30-11:30a.m.

11 THURSDAYPreschool story time in MandarinChinese, St. Anthony Park Library,10:30-11:30 a.m.

St. Anthony Park Area Seniors cinemaseries, St. Anthony Park Library, 2-4p.m. All welcome. Free.

12 FRIDAYMini Maker Story Time in English, forpreschool and early elementary-agedchildren, St. Anthony Park Library,10:30-11:30 a.m.

Tablet and Smartphone Clinic, St.Anthony Park Library, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

14 SUNDAYGreen Line Sunday Series at theDubliner, with Como Park musicianMiss Becky Kapell, 5-7:30 p.m.

15 MONDAYCommunity Sing, Olson CampusCenter, Luther Seminary, 6:30 p.m.gathering, 7-8:30 p.m. sing. Theevent is free, but a donation hat willbe passed. Co-sponsored by theDistrict 12 Community Council.

16 TUESDAYStoryteller Paulino Brener, St.Anthony Park Library, 10:30-11:30a.m.

18 THURSDAYLearn Chinese Folk Dancing, anexercise class for adults, St. AnthonyPark Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m.Free.

Lauderdale Farmers Market,Community Park, 1885 Fulham St.,4-7 p.m.

Park B4 Dark: eat, drink and shopalong Como Avenue in St. AnthonyPark, 5-8 p.m.

19 FRIDAYMini Maker Story Time in English, forpreschool and early elementary-agedchildren, St. Anthony Park Library,10:30-11:30 a.m.

21 SUNDAYBook launch for Montessoristorytelling book “Deep Well of Time”by St. Anthony Park author MichaelDorer, Montessori Center ofMinnesota, 1611 Ames Ave., St.Paul, 2-4:30 p.m.

26 FRIDAYCo-ed Drum Circle, Women’s DrumCenter, 6:30 p.m. $10 at the door.

28 SUNDAYSunday Afternoon Book Club,“Ordinary Grace” by William KentKrueger, Micawber’s, 1:30 p.m. Allare welcome.

Cycle ’Round the World folk musicconcert, St. Anthony Park LutheranChurch, 4 p.m. Donations at thedoor will go to Minnesota PrisonDoula Project.

SENIOR EXERCISESt. Anthony Park Area Seniors

Mondays and Thursdays,Lauderdale City Hall, 2-3 p.m.

Tuesdays and Fridays, St. AnthonyPark Library, 2:30-3:30 p.m. (Noclass on June 3)

Como Park/Falcon HeightsBlock Nurse Program

Tuesdays and Thursdays, FalconHeights Town Square SeniorApartments, 9:30-10:30 a.m. andArbor Pointe Senior Apartment, 11a.m.-noon

FREE SENIOR BLOODPRESSURE CLINICSComo Park/Falcon HeightsBlock Nurse Program:

Third Thursdays, Arbor PointeSenior Apartments, 10-11 a.m.

Fourth Thursdays, Falcon HeightsTown Square Senior Apartments, 11a.m.-noon

VENUE INFORMATIONArbor Pointe Senior Apartments,635 W. Maryland Ave.

City Gables, 1611 Pleasant St.,Lauderdale

Falcon Heights Town Square SeniorApartments, 1530 W. LarpenteurAve.

Lauderdale City Hall, 1891 WalnutSt., 651-631-0300

Micawber’s Books, 2238 CarterAve., 651-646-5506

Olson Campus Center, LutherSeminary, 1490 Fulham St.

St. Anthony Park Library, 2245Como Ave., 651-642-0411

St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church,2323 Como Ave., 651-645-0371

St. Anthony Park United Church ofChrist, 2129 Commonwealth Ave.,651-646-7173

Women’s Drum Center, 2242 W.University Ave.,www.womensdrumcenter.org

work closely with Dominium, aMinneapolis-based developerplanning to develop two sites inthe neighborhood.

Dominium plans to build600 to 700 market-rate andincome-restricted apartments ona 13.3-acre industrial site next to808 Berry Place, a rentalproperty that Dominium builtin 2004. The site was formerlya Weyerhauser lumberyard.

Dominium has alsoproposed building a 216-unitbuilding at Hampden andTerritorial avenues. Theproposed project would serve apopulation that meets 60percent of the Area MedianIncome (AMI) or less.Dominium plans to have 1.25parking stalls per unit as well asan inner courtyard with a pooland social areas. The group isplanning a townhouse-stylebuilding with patio access forevery unit.

The group presented itsproposal to the Land UseCommittee in July, and thecommittee voted to support achange in zoning at the site fromindustrial to T3 residential.Dominium will return to seeksupport on a conditional-usevariance to increase the height ofthe building past the 45 feetallowed at a T3 zoning.

News from the District 12Transportation Committee Transportation intern JeffCornell has completed histransportation-usage project andpresented it to theTransportation Committee inJuly. The project surveyed theneeds and gaps in transportationin the neighborhood.

The TransportationCommittee is working with Cityof St. Paul staff on the RaymondAvenue reconstruction project,scheduled to start after LaborDay. The project will include theportion of the avenue betweenEnergy Park Drive and ComoAvenue. The project will bebroken into two parts so that theroad will be open through thewinter. It is scheduled to becompleted next summer.

Coffee with CailinIf you want to discussneighborhood issues, join CailinRogers, District 12 outreach andoperations coordinator, forCoffee with Cailin, 7:30 to 9:30a.m. Friday, July 29, atWorkhorse Coffee, 2399 W.University Ave.; Friday, Aug. 12,at Finnish Bistro, 2264 ComoAve.; or Friday Aug. 26, atWorkhorse. RSVP or sendquestions you want her to lookinto at cailin@sapcc.org.

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Neighbors

St. Anthony Park woman honoredfor service at Arc’s Value VillageArc’s Value Village Thrift Stores &Donation Centers honored St.Anthony Park resident Maddie WildCrea for volunteer service at the Arc’sValue Village store in St. Paul in July.Crea was honored for five years ofservice and recognized at the ArcGreater Twin Cities Annual Meetingand Volunteer Celebration.

Thanks to volunteers andgenerous donations from thecommunity, Arc’s Value Village hasgenerated more than $24 million forthe Arc Greater Twin Cities programsand services. To join this fun andproductive team, call volunteerdevelopment manager MollyLindblad, 952-915-3652, or visitwww.arcsvaluevillage.org.

The Arc Greater Twin Citiesfosters respect and access forindividuals with intellectual anddevelopmental disabilities and theirfamilies. The Arc was started 70 yearsago by parents determined to ensurethe most full and independent livespossible for their children. Today, theArc continues to be a family-focused,grassroots organization helpingindividuals and families address issuessuch as early intervention, education,transition to adulthood, health care,housing, employment, guardianshipand more.

Raymond Ave. Gallery to showwork of Zac Spates, Mark OdegardThe pottery of Hudson, Wis.,ceramist Zac Spates and Giclee printsof Minneapolis artist Mark Odegardwill be on display Aug. 19 to Sept. 23at Raymond Avenue Gallery, 761Raymond Ave., St. Anthony Park.

An opening reception for theshow will be held Friday, Aug. 19,from 6 to 8 p.m.

Spates received his bachelor’sdegree in studio arts from St. John’sUniversity, Collegeville, Minn., in2003. He was an assistant to RichardBresnahan at St. John’s Pottery forthree years, and then was anapprentice at Mark Hewitt Pottery,Pittsboro, N.C., from 2003 to 2006.

Spates says he strives to makesimple, well-thrown pottery withcomplex wood-fired surfaces.

Odegard received a bachelor’sdegree in sculpture at the Universityof Minnesota. He later attended theL.A. Art Center to study design andtypography. He volunteered for thePeace Corps in the Fiji Islands,creating museum exhibitions oftraditional artifacts. He returned andbecame head of design at the ScienceMuseum of Minnesota for 20 years.

In the last 15 years he hasworked in Asia at the NationalScience Museum of Thailand, taughtart and design at Bemidji University,and worked as a lockman at Lockand Dam No. 1.

For the last 50 years he has kept

creative art journals, recording his lifein drawings, paintings, and words.This exhibit evokes his time workingon the Mississippi River near theFord Bridge.

National Night Out at Jehovah Lutheran ChurchJehovah Lutheran Church, 1566Thomas Ave., St. Paul, will host itsannual National Night Outcelebration Tuesday, Aug. 2, 6-8p.m., with music, food and activities.The event will be in the churchparking lot, weather permitting, andwill include a giveaway of clothingand household items, all free.

Area youth perform at Circus Juventas summer showThree area youth will perform inCircus Juventas’s celebration of the150th anniversary of LewisCarroll’s Alice’s Adventuresin Wonderland. The youth circus willpresent Wonderland as its annualsummer production July 28-Aug. 14.

Kalea Ott of Como Park,August Leifield of Como Park andEmilia Hidalgo-Leatherman of St.Anthony Park will all perform in theshow.

Tickets are available atwww.ticketworks.com, by calling612-343-3390 or by calling theCircus Juventas box office, 651-699-8229. Circus Juventas is located at1270 Montreal Ave., St. Paul. Findthe schedule and show times atwww.circusjuventas.org.

MYDT dance studio will perform in August Fringe FestivalClassical Mechanics, a dancecompany based in the Roseville area,

will present Frame Works Aug. 4-14at the Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Classical Mechanics’ artisticdirector Margaret Marinoff worksout of Roseville-based dance studioMYDT. She uses the talents of local

The work of Mark Odegard (left) and Zac Spates (right) will bedisplayed at Raymond Avenue Gallery in August.

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dancers, some of them formerstudents of hers. The company is apick-up company that works onprojects during the summer. Comeautumn her dancers return to collegeand she focuses on teaching.

This summer’s project is a 60-minute dance production that bringsthe canvas to life in compositionsinspired by artists past and present.The idea for the show came toMarinoff while listening to one of herfavorite pieces of music.

“I remembered walking throughthe Louvre in Paris some years agoand the moment I came uponDelarouche's painting, The YoungMartyr, I was going through a

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That memory was theinspiration for Frame Works, acomposition of dances that exploresand interprets works by Marinoff ’sfavorite artists and photographersand the feelings they evoke bothpersonally and on a universal scale.

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Mary Jane AddisonMary Jane Addison, 92, of St.Anthony Park, died peacefully at herhome on July 1, 2016. She was alifelong teacher with St. Paul PublicSchools and past president ofAmerican Association of UniversityWomen.

Mary Jane was a devotedmother, grandmother, great-grandmother and aunt. She was amember of St. Anthony UnitedChurch of Christ for more than 50years.

She was preceded in death byher husband, Bill K. Addison. She issurvived by her children, Mari JillJenson and John.

Her funeral service was held July8 at St. Anthony Park UnitedChurch of Christ, with interment atRoselawn Cemetery.

Memories of Mary Jane fromher friend of many years, LaVonneSouther: “There was nothing simpleabout Mary Jane Addison. She wasan active, well-educated and complexwoman. Her husband, Bill, taughthigh school Latin. My daughter Sallywas among his students. Living in St.Anthony Park, I got to know herearly on through St. Anthony ParkUnited Church of Christ. Sheespecially liked Adult Forum. Shewas a longtime participant in theLoaves and Fishes Project at theDorothy Day Center in downtownSt. Paul. She also contributed a lot toour clothing drive for women whoworked.

“Many times after church, agroup of women—sometimes fouror five, sometimes eight or nine—went out to lunch at various

restaurants. Mary Jane triedsomething different every Sunday.

“In the days when manychurches had bazaars and luncheons,our church had a smorgasbord. Weserved at different times toaccommodate teachers and otherswho worked. Mary Jane alwayshelped with this event. This is just asmall part of what she did becauseshe helped in so many ways.”

Ruth AlexanderRuth E. Alexander, 87, formerly ofSt. Anthony Park, died June 7, 2016.Ruth was always about concern forothers, both professionally as a nurseand in her personal life.

She was preceded in death byher husband, Jerry, and son David.Ruth is survived by three children,Tom (Sue), Denise and Bob (Cindi);eight grandchildren; and a great-grandson.

Her memorial service was heldJune 17 at Washburn-McReavyEdina Chapel.

Donald ElvesterDonald Howard Elvester, 96,formerly of the Como Park area, diedJuly 8, 2016, in Phoenix, Ariz.

Don was born last in a family of13 brothers and sisters to Lena andJohn Elvester in Cyrus, Minn. Heretired from the U.S. Postal Serviceand loved wintering in Florida andtraveling, especially to Norway, hisparents’ homeland.

He was a proud U.S. Armyveteran serving in Normandy,Northern France, Ardennes,Rhineland and Central Europeduring World War II.

He was preceded in death by hiswives, Charlotte and Ferne; longtimecompanion, Eileen Teal, anddaughter Cheryl LaBarre. He issurvived by his daughter Lynn (Bill)Graham; three grandchildren; andseven great-grandchildren.

His funeral service was held July18 at Como Park Lutheran Church,with interment at RoselawnCemetery. Memorials can be given tothe church.

Jerry HealyJerry Healy, longtime Como Parkresident, died on June 19, 2016, inCambridge, Minn., at the age of 88.He had suffered from Parkinson’sdisease for the past three years. Hewas a leap-year baby, born Feb. 29,1928, in River Falls, Wis., and theyoungest of Glen and Martha Healy’sfive children. Jer attended theUniversity of Wisconsin at River Fallsfor two years before transferring toSioux Falls College, where he metMildred Jucht. They were married onAug. 17, 1950.

Jer taught high school English inSinai and Alcester, S.D., beforetaking a job in the EnglishDepartment at Bethel College, in St.Paul, where he also coachedbasketball. After retiring from Bethelin 1986, he and Millie established aretreat center, Lindisfarne, near PineCity, Minn. After their secondretirement in 1999, they sold thatproperty and moved to Cambridge,Minn.

Jer had a long association withTrout Lake Camp, serving on thepermanent staff during severalsummers in the 1950s and at retreatsfor many years thereafter. He was afrequent guest speaker at churchesthroughout the upper Midwest.

Jer loved poetry, basketball, golf,the Mills Brothers, traditionalhymns, oyster stew and pie. He hatedlong sermons, grammatical errors,table games and ice hockey.

Jer was preceded in death by hisfour siblings and is survived by hiswife, Millie; sons, David (Nancy),Paul (Marlys) and Will (Julie); anddaughter, Elizabeth; sevengrandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

The family is grateful to the staffat GracePointe West, where Jer livedfor the past two years. A memorialservice was held on June 25 at BethelUniversity.

Cletus (“Pete”) HohnCletus Marcel (Pete) Hohn was bornon Christmas Day, 1927, and diedon the Fourth of July, 2016, inBuffalo, Minn., where he had livedfor sometime.

He joined the Marine Corps theday after he graduated from SaukRapids High School in 1945,fighting in the Pacific with the FirstMarine Airwing.

Pete used the G.I. Bill to attendSt. Cloud State University for twoyears, before transferring to theUniversity of Minnesota. He becamethe first journalism graduate from the

� LYDIA PLACE COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITIES ELCARev. Scott Simmons, pastor, 612-859-1134, lydiaplace.comHymntap beer and hymns, first Monday of each month7 p.m. Dubliner Pub, 2162 W. University Ave. 55114

Sunday Worship, 5 p.m., Dow Art Gallery,2242 W. University Ave., St. Paul

� MOUNT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH —WELSA Caring Family of Christ-Centered Believerswww.mount-olive-lutheran-church.orgFind us on Facebook1460 Almond Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108651-645-2575Sunday Worship 9 a.m.Bible Study and Sunday School 10:30 a.m.Pastor Al Schleusener

� PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH—ELCA1744 Walnut St. (at Ione), Lauderdale, 651-644-5440www.peacelauderdale.comSunday worship: 10 a.m.Reconciling in Christ CongregationAll are welcome. Come as you are.

� ST. CECILIA’S CATHOLIC CHURCH2357 Bayless Place, 651-644-4502Website: www.stceciliaspm.orgHandicapped accessibleSaturday Mass: 5 p.m. at the churchSunday Masses: 8:15 a.m. and 10 a.m. at the church

Community Worship Directory� ST. ANTHONY PARK UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST2129 Commonwealth Ave. (corner of Commonwealth and Chelmsford)651-646-7173, www.sapucc.org9:15 a.m. worship (Summer schedule runs through Labor Day.)Christian Tradition � Progressive Faith � All Are Welcome

� CENTENNIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCHST. ANTHONY PARK CAMPUS

A Reconciling Congregation. All are welcome.2200 Hillside Ave. (at Como)The building is closed for renovations through early fall.Watch for information about our grand re-launch in late fall!

� ST. ANTHONY PARK LUTHERAN CHURCH2323 Como Avenue W. 651-645-0371Staffed nursery available–Handicap-accessiblePastor Glenn Berg-Moberg and Pastor Jill RodeWeb, Facebook, Instagram & Twitter: SAPLCSummer Sunday Worship: 10 a.m.Coffee Hour followsWednesday Evening Holden Prayer–7 p.m.

� ST. MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCHThe Rev. Blair A. Pogue, Rector 2136 Carter at Chelmsford651-645-3058 www.stmatthewsmn.orgSummer Schedule: One service on Sundays: 9:30 a.m.All are welcome!

To add your church to the directory, contact Bradley Wolfe at 952-393-6814 or bradley.wolfe@parkbugle.org

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U of M to major in photography.He worked as a photographer

for 27 years, covering an incrediblevariety of events and people andwinning many awards. His lenscaptured famous politicians andother notables and sports events, allin great number.

In 1963, one of his photos waschosen Picture of the Year by anational news organization. Heretired from the Minneapolis Tribune(now the Star Tribune) in 1982.

Pete is survived by his wife,Marilyn Hoegemeyer, and her twosons and their families: StephanBecerra (Virginia Cabezas) ofOmaha, Neb., and Josh Becerra(Sonia Ellis) of St. Anthony Park, andgrandchildren Sebastian, Salvador,Magdalena, Isabella and Angelina.After his marriage to Marilyn, Petelived in both St. Anthony Park andin his beloved cabin at Fish TrapLake, near Little Falls/Motley.

He was preceded in death by hisparents; his sister, Doloris (Hohn)Michalicek; and his brothers, Henry,John, Wilfred and Leo.

A celebration of Pete’s life will beheld Friday, Aug. 5, at 2 p.m., at theMinnesota Veterans Cemetery,Camp Ripley, Minn. His final restingsite, like his birth site, will be oneblock from the Mississippi River.

Alyce HustonAlyce A. Huston, 92, of Como Park,died July 5, 2016. Alyce was adevoted wife and mother; she will be

missed.Alyce will be buried at the side

of her husband of 56 years, WilliamHuston. She is also preceded in deathby her parents and eight siblings. Sheis survived by her children, Connie,Sandra, William, Brett (Sandy Foss),AnnMarie (Richard Johnson) andJennifer (Curt Oliver); 12grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and sister, FlorenceSwanson.

Her funeral service was held July11 at St. Timothy Lutheran Church.Memorials are preferred to NorthEnd-South Como Block NurseProgram.

Clara McMahonClara Marie McMahon, 98,longtime resident of Como Park,died July 4, 2016. Clara was born toNancy and George Lewandowski ofWinsted, Minn.

She married Lawrence T.McMahon, Sept. 17, 1938. She waspreceded in death by her husbandand grandchildren, Jeff and Katie.She is survived by her children, Larry(Barb), Tom (Maggie), Mickey (Jack)Vogelgesang, Bob (Carol), Pat(Bobbi) and Margie McMahon(Larry Rolison); 18 grandchildren;and 27 great-grandchildren.

Mass of Christian Burial wascelebrated July 11 at HolyChildhood Catholic Church, withinterment at Roselawn Cemetery.Memorials are preferred to HolyChildhood Church or the Special

Olympics in the state of Washington.

Catherine O’Keefe Catherine Elizabeth O’Keefe, 59,originally of Lauderdale, died June 8,2016. She was preceded in death byher parents, John and Edna O’Keefe;brother, Daniel; and sisters, Sharonand Theresa O’Keefe. She is survivedby three brothers, Dennis, Thomas(June) and Terrence O’Keefe, andthree sisters, Marie Stiles, Cecilia andPatricia O’Keefe.

Mass of Christian Burial washeld June 13 at Corpus ChristiCatholic Church in Roseville, withinterment at Resurrection Cemetery.

Bruce Richard Bruce W. Richard, 65, of Lauderdale,died June 9, 2016. Bruce was a lovingson, brother and uncle. He had apassion for fishing, good food andthe outdoors. He had a nickname foreveryone, was quick to laugh andsmiled often. He will be missed.

He was preceded in death by hisfather, Kenneth, and niece, Kirstin.He is survived by his mother, Laura;brother, Mike; and sister-in-law,Kathy.

A private memorial was held.

Dr. John RowellDr. John B. Rowell, 97, ofLauderdale, died June 14, 2016. Hewas born in 1918 in Pawtucket, R.I.He graduated from the University ofRhode Island, and entered the U.S.Coast Guard in July 1942 as an

ensign. He served on USCG Modocand USCG Harriet Lane, bothcutters on antisubmarine duty in theNorth Atlantic.

In 1944 he was commissionedand commanded the U.S. Army FS249. This ship was one of manysmall supply ships that could rapidlyload and unload supplies andpersonnel at the small bases scatteredamong the island in the SouthwestPacific.

He was commissioned tolieutenant in October 1945 and washonorably discharged in December1945.

All four of his great-grandfathersfought in the Civil War. Ezra NelsonBlake was killed at the second battleof Bull Run and many served theircountry through the Vietnam War.Great-great-grandfather Ezra Blakeserved in Revolutionary War.

John received his Ph.D. in plantpathology from the University ofMinnesota in 1949. He was aresearch associate at the universitywhen he joined the USDA to workon chemical control of cereal rustsand related problems in cooperationwith the university. He and his teamwere able to determine a screeningprocess to help predict the rustepidemics.

He became the director of theCereal Rust Lab and was namedprofessor at the U of M. He also wasa technical adviser for coordinatingresearch on wheat rusts for theUSDA and served on variouscommittees of APS, the NationalAcademy of Sciences and as aconsultant to the Ford Foundation inIndia.

An avid fly fisherman, he retiredin 1981 and spent many years at hiscabin on the Brule River inWisconsin. John and his wife, Alice,both died this year. They are survived

by sons, Bartlett (Jan), Los Gatos,Calif.; Bruce (Sharon); and Brian(Susan); nine grandchildren; andseven great-grandsons.

The family gives special thanksto Cherrywood Pointe Memory CareUnit and especially St. Croix Hospicefor its support.

A memorial service was heldJune 19.

James Unger James R. Unger, 88, of the ComoPark area, died June 4, 2016, after abrief illness, surrounded by his lovingfamily.

Jim was a proud graduate of St.John’s Prep, served in the Navy inWorld War II and went on to workas a plumber for St. Paul Parks andRecreation for 35 years. Above all hewas a faith-filled man. He valuededucation for himself and hischildren.

He was a dedicated volunteer,serving in hospice (20 years), as acoach, Befriender, ESL tutor, atDorothy Day, Lyngblomsten andHabitat for Humanity.

He was preceded in death by hisbrother Bill and the love of his life,Carol. He is survived by his children:Nancy (Louie) Grams, James G.Unger, Becky Unger, Debra (Charlie)Fastner, Teri (Paul) Demore, MaryJule (Steve) Erickson, Dennis (Sue)and Christopher (Kelly); 19grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; sister, Mary (Richard)Hoffman; and sisters-in-law, Joanne(Dodie) Lytle and Charlotte(Shocky) Isaacs.

Mass of Christian Burial wascelebrated June 11 at the Church ofSt. Cecilia. The family expressesspecial thanks to the caring staffs atSt. Joseph’s Hospital, Pillars Hospice,and to James’s “fifth daughter,”Colleen Kroona.

HealthPartners signed the finalagreement to purchase land fromLuther Seminary on July 14. Theland, which is across the street and onthe north side of HealthPartnersComo Clinic, will be the newlocation for the Como Clinic.

It is the same tract of land onwhich nonprofit developer Ecumenhad proposed a year ago to build a121-unit apartment building and112-unit memory-care facility.

HealthPartners’ land purchase isthe first step in a multi-year processthat will start with an extensive

community engagement and designphase. Groundbreaking is expectedin 2018 and construction would takean estimated 18 months. The currentclinic will continue to offer allservices until the new facility opens.

The new building is expected tobe roughly the same size as thecurrent clinic and will offer similarservices, including primary, specialtyand urgent care, dental andpharmacy. HealthPartners plans towork with the neighborhood as theproject progresses. A recent projectthat was similar to this is

HealthPartners Nokomis Clinic nearMinnehaha Creek in southMinneapolis. It opened in 2012 andwas designed with input from nearbyresidents and includes an openenvironment that fits in with thehistoric neighborhood.

Como Clinic opened in 1957 asthe first clinic for what was thenGroup Health. It was a new modelthat provided both medical care andhealth care financing. In 1992, GroupHealth merged with MedCenters tobecome HealthPartners.

HealthPartners purchase ofLuther Seminary land finalized

Lake Como part of Capitol RegionWatershed District grant projectThe Capitol Region WatershedDistrict (CRWD) has received a$1.76 million grant from theMinnesota Board of Water and SoilResources to improve water qualityin Lake Como in Como RegionalPark and Lake McCarrons inRoseville.

The funds, made availablethrough the Clean Water, Land andLegacy Amendment, are part of theTargeted Watershed Program. Thegrant will boost funding for CRWD’sUrban Lake Renewal Project, aproject aimed at improving waterquality in Lake Como, which isimpaired for phosphorous, andprotecting Lake McCarrons, whichhas seen a decline in water quality in

recent years. The work will begin thisfall.

Meeting water-quality goals foreach lake will require a combinationof storm-water improvementprojects to collect and treat runoffdraining to the lakes, in-lakemanagement strategies and a CleanStreets Initiative.

As part of the Clean StreetsInitiative, CRWD staff work withresidents to prevent, remove andtreat polluted runoff before it entersstorm drains, flows into Lakes Comoand McCarrons, and ultimatelyreaches the Mississippi River.CRWD estimates 50 to 100 raingardens may be installed as a resultof this project, treating up to 10

pounds of total phosphorus per year,while also increasing publicunderstanding of storm water issues.Currently, a group of 350 volunteersworks to keep more than 7,000pounds of organic debris and morethan 11 pounds of phosphorousfrom entering storm drains near LakeComo. This program will expand toLake McCarrons.

CRWD includes portions ofFalcon Heights, Lauderdale,Maplewood, Roseville and St. Pauland works to protect, manage andimprove the water resources of thedistrict, which includes Lake Como,Crosby Lake, Loeb Lake, LakeMcCarrons and the MississippiRiver.

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memorizing and regurgitatinginformation,” Jamir and Strohmanwrote in a grant application.“Students do not read and exploretopics on their own. We hope toremedy this.”

Jamir envisions this as a familyproject. “My wife and I have twolovely girls, Manentila (age 12) andAchetla (9 years),” he said, “and ourgirls will get involved in this projectin reading and narrating stories to the

kids, giving puppet plays andarranging the books.”

As Jamir and Strohman noted intheir grant materials, the library isabout more than books. “The librarywill engender a sense of communityand belonging in Dimapur,” theywrote.

Anne Holzman is a freelance writer andformer St. Anthony Park resident, nowliving in Bloomington.

current site of holes No. 15 through18.)

The city made a commitmentto a course in its 1928 budget, andconstruction began in the formerCozy Lake area. Paul Coates, RamseyCounty surveyor and designer ofKeller Golf Course, laid out the firstnine holes.

But more land was needed for afull 18 holes and supporters beganeyeing a 30-acre tract on the southside of Hoyt Avenue and west of N.Dunlap Street, owned by developer

Thomas Frankson. Frankson openedthe adjacent Chelsea Heightsresidential addition in 1916, but tothat point had found no use for thehilly tract known as Robertson’sHole.

To raise money to buy theparcel, about a dozen civic-improvement clubs banded togetherin the summer of 1929 to stage acarnival in Como Park. Many of theclubs were located in the immediatearea, but the level of support from thewider community was apparent asthe North St. Anthony Park Club,the University Avenue Commercial

Club and the Newell ParkImprovement Associationparticipated as well.

The fundraising came up short,so prominent businessmen withnames like Bigelow, Griggs, Bremer,Hill, Seeger and Hamm kicked inmore money and Frankson agreed toaccept less than the appraised valuefor the property.

On May 3, 1930, a dedicationceremony for the course was heldnext to the first tee at a new flagpolethat included the names of thefounders inscribed on a bronze tabletin its base. (The tablet currently can

be seen in a display case in the Comoclubhouse entryway.)

At midsummer of that year,more than 100 volunteers wieldinghoes and shovels helped put thefinishing touches on the course priorto its opening.

Clyde R. May, commissioner ofparks, playgrounds and publicbuildings, declared the greens to bein good shape, “for new greens.”

“The fairways are playable,” headded, “but have been suffering, likeall fairways, from the drouth [sic].”

About 50 golfers were on handfor the start of play on Saturday, Aug.16, 1930. The greens fee was 25cents. (Many others presumably werein attendance at Keller, where the “St.

Paul $10,000 Open,” was underway, featuring stars such as WalterHagen and Gene Sarazen.)

Como’s second nine, laid out byTom Vardon, prolific course designerand head professional at the WhiteBear Yacht Club, opened thefollowing year.

The Como Golf Course hasalways had its quirks. For example,peat fires continued to burnunderground in the former Cozylakebed for several years. The firedepartment had to be summonedfrom time to time, and steam rosefrom the ground in winter.

And a golfer occasionally wassaid to get a “hot foot,” frombreaking through the surface.

experienced drivers overtaking (onthe bike lane) or gesturing at us fordriving 25. Anecdotally, I haveobserved other vehicles in front of medriving at 25 mph, so we do haveother likeminded drivers exercisingtheir concern for a safer SAP. Thereis also a lot of interest from otherdistricts.”

The committee is working with

the city about conducting a traffic-speed survey and is hoping to findfunding to print more signs.Thompson donated funds for thefirst 20 signs.

If you would like to learn moreabout the campaign, contact CailinRogers at the St. Anthony ParkCommunity Council,cailin@sapcc.org or 651-649-5992.

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Thank You from the 4th in the Park Committee!

A huge thank you to our very generous businesses and neighbors who made the 69th Fourth in thePark a success this year. We would not be able to put on this event without the financial supportfrom those named below and all the amazing volunteers who help year after year. It is with sincere

appreciation we thank all individuals and businesses that contributed.

Sparkler Donor, $10 to $49Astrid AndersonCatherine AndersonBargain UpholsteryPatrick & Elizabeth BorichDavid BraselFrancis & Barbara BulbulianKathleen CanrightGary & Robin CarlsonMonika ChandlerAlice & David DugganKeith & Grace DyrudRev. Loren & Shirley EspelandFred & Linda FosterAnne FretheimDerek Fried &

Elisabeth CurrieJoyce HalversonShaul & Niza HananyLynne HesslerMollie HobenFlorence Holmsten &

Nancy HedburgKeith & Karen HovlandNick Jordan & Debora SmithVirgil & Verena LarsonMilton & Jean LarsonBarbara & Rolfe LearyLois MarrinanPatricia McDonaldRobert & Roberta MegardMary MergenthalBob & Greta MichaelsHolly Morris &

Renee HoloienLouise MullanGordon & Barbara MurdockJoan NolteGerald NolteShannon Obrien &

Shaun CurtinKathleen O'MalleyDennis & Molly O'RourkeAndrew & Sylvia OxenhamBeverlyn PaersoJohn & Beverly PearsonMike & Alice PhillipsBrigita Robins &

Baiba OlingerMike & Eva RognessJoanne RohrichtWilliam RottschaeferVirginia RuddyKen & Magdalene SchaeferChristina & Bradford SchwieJohn Seltz & Catherine FurryStephen & Susan ShakmanCarolyn ShepherdL.A. StolarczykRon Sundberg & Joan DukeRonald TabaikaRobert Thayer &

Nancy Meade-ThayerMark ThieroffKaren Titrud

Robert & Miriam TitzlerChuck & Anna TracyTurning HeadsShirley UngerBruce & Alisa WeberMichael & Susan WebsterCarol Zapfel

Firecracker Donor, $50 to $99Joel & Teresa AndersonKristin AndersonDamon Anderson &

Julia LoupeAnonymousCharles & Marjorie AvolesMary Briggs &

Jon SchumacherSuzanne Brust & John ShepardMike Burbach &

Mary ThomasBarb & Tom BurkComo Rose TravelAbigail Crouse &

Jonathan SchroederKent & Katherine EklundAudrey Estebo & John EatonDavid & Maryse FanRick & Nancy FossWarren & Kiki GoreDave & Nancy HealyEsther HopeBrian Isaacson & Meg KerseyHeidi & Paul JensenDorothy KnightDan Knights & Gina FabianoRita La Doux &

Paul SwedenborgKristal Leebrick &

Don StrykerDavid LeitzkeJane Leonard &

Loretto LippertKatherine MabelKathy MagnusonGregory MittonBjorn & Margot MonsonChristy & Gordon MyersBrian & Mary Ellen NerneyDon & Susanne NevinPaul O'ConnorMike & Marcie O'ConnorAnnette & Dr. S. A. PatelNancy & Steve PlagensSharon SandgrenMark Seeley & Cindy BevierRobert & Nancy SerfassJohn Michael &

Carole Mason SmithThomson-ReutersCindy Vik & Blaine Thrasher

Starburst Donor, $100 to $249Bibelot - Roxana FreeseEleanor & David Bienhoff

Anita BraninJune & Mead CavertWilbur & Jean DonaldsonThe Emily ProgramBrenda & Mark HansenDave Hansen & Karen LilleyJim Roehrenbach Agency -

State FarmJoan Hershbell &

Garyl JohnsonGiovanni ImpullittiAnn Juergens & Jay WeinerCarol & Don KelseyRobb & Janet LagesonAndy McNattinWilliam Scott Midness &

Lydia Tooker MidnessMilton Investment Co. -

Heather O'MalleyCharlie Nauen & P.J. PofahlSt. Anthony Park Dental Care

- Paul Kirkegaard, DDSGlen & Anna SkovholtRobert & Mavis StraughnThomas LandscapeCindy Tong & Robert DenisonBeth & John Van Hecke

Blue Level, $250Eileen AdamsBen Quie & SonsCarter Avenue Frame ShopThe Little Wine ShoppeNed’s Park ServiceSt. Anthony Park HomeThe Sparrs - Edina Realty

White Level, $500Aspen Waste Systems, Inc.Colossal CafePark DentalSaint Anthony Park

Community FoundationTim & Tom's Speedy Market

Red Level, $1,000MTEC ResultsSunrise Banks

Presenting Sponsor, $5,000HealthPartners

We attempt to include the namesof all who contributed to 4th inthe Park. If your name has notbeen included, please excuse theomission and let us know so thatwe may properly recognize yourgift. Please email 4thinthepark@gmail.com.

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WINDOW COVERINGS NEED UPDATING?Custom blinds & shades to plantationshutters & drapery. Full service, localsmall business. Free consultation:612.741.9325 www.blindattraction.com

WATER DAMAGE REPAIR, plaster,sheetrock, woodwork and painting.Family business in the Park 70 years.Jim Larson, 651-644-5188.jimmyrocket1464@gmail.com

HOME SERVICES: Locally located inLauderdale. Specializing inbathroom/kitchen remodel, trim car-pentry, tile work/flooring, and handy-man services. Fully insured. Caleb,651-260-7589.

WE SATISFY ALL YOUR PAINTING NEEDS.Painting, staining, water damage repair,sheetrock, spray texture, spray textureremoval, wallpaper and wallpaper re-moval. Family business in the Park 70years. Jim Larson, 651-644-5188.jimmyrocket1464@gmail.com

RAIN GUTTERS CLEANED, REPAIRED,installed. Insured, license #BC126373.651-699-8900. Burton’s Rain GutterService, 1864 Grand Ave.www.burtonsraingutter.com

PAINTING, WALLPAPER REMOVAL, smallpainting jobs wanted. Painter Jim, 612-202-5514.

BRUSHSTROKES PAINTING Interior/exteriorpainting. Ceiling/wall repair. Very detail-oriented. I strive to have a professional& positive relationship with my cus-tomers. Tom Marron 651-230-1272.www.brushstrokespainting.org

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ROBERT’S REPAIR & PAINT will do Res.work & Apt. turnovers 612-378-7749

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PARK ANGELS CHILDCARE. Infant to 11years old, near Como & Doswell. CallAdella, 651-644-5516.

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20/20 HOUSE CLEANING Perfect housecleaning. W/over 25 yrsexp. in the area. Family-owned & operated, 651-635-9228.

20/20 CARPET CLEANING.Season special! Liv rom/dinrm, $75. 651-635-9228.

QUALITY CLEANING at reasonable ratesServicing area over 20 years. Rita &Molly, 612-414-9241

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YARD CLEANUPS. Seasonal lawn services.I use a small push mower, not a big ridingmower. Gutter cleaning. Avg. monthlycosts $70 call 651-224-8593

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All your GREEN needs: Mowing / Lawn Care/ Landscaping. 23+ years in St. Paul. Call651-695-1230. SorensenLawnCare.com

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Aug. 7, 8:30 p.m.; Monday, Aug. 8,10 p.m.; Thursday, Aug. 11, 8:30p.m.; and Sunday, Aug. 14, 1 p.m.

Day passes are $16 on weekdaysand $22 on weekends. Tickets maybe purchased at the door or atfringefestival.org.

Cookie 5K at Lake ComoThe Cookie 5K will be heldSaturday, Aug. 13, at 9 a.m. at LakeComo. This is a fundraiser forHerosearch.org, an online nonprofitthat connects community memberswith local charities that need theirdonation items.

Cookie Cart, a nonprofit youthorganization, will supply cookies forall participants. Children will alsoreceive hero capes with registration.

In addition to the 5K, there willbe a collection of donated items forarea homeless youth from 8 to 11a.m. Anyone can donate itemswhether registered or not.

Pre-registration ends on Sunday,July 31. The fee is $25 with $5

discount for bringing a donation.Register and find the list of neededdonations at www.Herosearch.org.

Folk concert to be performed at St.Anthony Park Lutheran ChurchHear the U.S. premiere of “A Cycle’Round Britain,” arranged by GoffRichards, and other folk songs fromaround the world at Cycle ’Roundthe World! Sunday, Aug. 28, at 4p.m. at St. Anthony Park LutheranChurch, 2323 Como Ave.

Donations at the door willbenefit the Minnesota Prison DoulaProject, a nonprofit helpingincarcerated pregnant women.Performers will be St. Anthony ParkRecitalists and the Prevailing WindsWoodwind Quintet.

August camps and classes atnearby St. Paul recreation centersHere is a list of August camps andclasses at Langford, NorthwestComo and North Dale recreationcenters. Find out more atstpaul.gov/activityregistration.

Langford, 651-298-5765Computer: Java Minecraft

Mod Development, ages 10-15(Aug. 8-12)

Engineering: Out of thisWorld, ages 7-14 (Aug. 15-18)

Art: Lego Star Wars ArtCamp, ages 4-9 (Aug. 18-19)

Engineering: Space Pioneers,ages 4-6 (Aug. 15-18)

Disc Golf, ages 8-15 (Aug. 1-4)

Soccer Camp, ages 5-12 (Aug.8-11)

Northwest Como, 651-298-5813Art: Adult Asian Art, Wine,

Cheese at the Underground Café(Aug. 8)

Singing in the Summer, ages11-15 (Aug. 15-19)

Engineering: Camp Kelvin,ages 4-6 (Aug. 8-11)

Mini Hawk Camp, ages 4-7(Aug. 8-11)

Art: Messy Mania PJ Party,ages 3-6 (Aug. 12)

Flag Football Camp, ages 6-12 (Aug. 1-4)

Tie-Dye Class, ages 7-14(Aug. 4)

Engineering: Medieval May-hem, ages 7-14 (Aug. 8-11)

Art: Glow in the Dark Mil-lennium Falcon, ages 5-12 (Aug.12)

Basketball Camp, ages 7-12(Aug. 15-18)

Volleyball Camp, ages 9-14(Aug. 15-18)

Art: Clay to Go, ages 6-9(Aug. 22), ages 10-15 (Aug. 24)

Badminton Camp, ages 9-15(Aug. 22-25)

North Dale, 651-558-2329Intro to Yoga and Mindful-

ness, ages 9-12 (Aug. 22-26)Yogis to Be, ages 5-8 (Aug.

22-26)Robotics: Star Wars Droid

Builder Camp, ages 6-10 (Aug. 1-4)

Game-on Camp, ages 4-6(Aug. 15-18)

Nature Super Heroes Camp,ages 4-6 (Aug. 8-12)

Science: Secret Agent Camp,ages 7-12 (Aug. 15-18)

Ultimate Frisbee Camp, ages10-15 (Aug. 8-11)

American Red Cross Babysit-ting Class, ages 11-17 (Aug. 15)

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