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Men picking up trash at last year's cleanup
Volunteers are being recruited from across the Twin Cities to clean up Minnehaha Creek at a free, family-friendly event on Sunday, July 8, at Lake Hiawatha, 46th Street and 28th Avenue South. Sponsored by the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District.
Schedule of Events:
9 a.m. Free bagel breakfast for the first 250 volunteers
9:30 a.m. Board buses to cleanup locations
along creek and chain of lakes
11 - 11:30 a.m. Return to Lake Hiawatha for free BBQ lunch
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Can the Vikings Stadium be stopped?
BY ED FELIEN
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Council Member Gary Schiff addressed a rally of anti-stadium activists before the vote on Friday. He said, “When we passed the amendment to the charter in 1997 calling for a referendum, we said, ‘We don’t trust politicians when it comes to corporate welfare. We don’t trust politicians when it comes to sports stadiums. This is not what democracy should look like, but this is the beginning of taking our city back.’ ” |
According to the latest estimates, it looks like the Vikings Stadium is going to cost the Minneapolis taxpayers upwards of $890 million dollars over the next 30 years. And in exchange for that gift from the city, we get a traffic jam eight times a year and an empty drag on development the other 357 days.
Is there any way the stadium can be stopped?
According to the Minneapolis Charter, the City Council is required to allow the citizens to vote on whether they want to use city tax money to fund a sports stadium. In a legal opinion written for Council Member Cam Gordon, private attorney Karen Marty says: “Minneapolis Charter, Chapter 15, Sections 9 and 13, restrict the city’s authority to incur indebtedness.
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The Wisconsin recall and the long march
BY ED FELIEN
On Wednesday, June 5, Eliot Seide, director of AFSCME Minnesota Council 5, issued the following positive spin on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker surviving a recall vote in a battle over collective bargaining and budget cutting:
“Today’s recall election was another step in a long march to restore worker freedom in Wisconsin. We’re disappointed in the results of the governor’s race, but it doesn’t erase the incredible journey so many citizens made from standing in the snow and sleeping under the dome to forcing their governor to answer for dividing their state.
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How the deal went down!
BY ED FELIEN
What happened? Did anyone get the number of that truck that ran us over?
In the last moments of the legislative session a stadium bill came crashing down the highway hell-bent for destruction, and it was going to run over anything that got in its path—the Open Meeting law; the Minneapolis City Charter; the Minnesota taxpayers; the merchants and customers who buy things in Minneapolis all became roadkill!
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The Vine Arts Center supports local artists
BY JANET CONTURSI
In the summer of 2007, visual artist Sue Kolstad rode the Amtrak from Minneapolis to Washington state, and what she saw along the way changed the focus of her art for the next five years.
Kolstad is a member of the Vine Arts Center, a nonprofit housed in the historic Ivy Arts building in the Seward neighborhood. With a mission to support arts and crafts by connecting artists with patrons and the wider public, the center provides studio and gallery space, free exhibits, and sale space in its on-site store. The center will host its fourth Spring Member Show in June, and Kolstad’s work, inspired by her Amtrak journey, will be among the exhibited works.
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Redefining healthy
BY RAINA GOLDSTEIN
BUNNAG
Being “healthy” encompasses much more than being skinny, but it is often hard for us to focus on health goals that don’t involve temporarily slimming down. Like everything in our society today, we constantly seek quick fixes. Staying healthy requires hard work, but focusing on lifestyle changes instead of temporary switches can lead to simple, long-term wellness.
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The hungry insurgent
BY CHARLEY UNDERWOOD
The other day, I learned a new four-letter word from a naturalist: “lawn.” In her view, our yards contain an invasive species that has destroyed wetlands, wasted natural resources through frequent sprinkler irrigation, crowded out native species, and created pollution through fertilizer and pesticide runoff.
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Looking forward to what comes next . . .
Congratulations, Graduates!
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Bernadeia H. Johnson, Ed.D.
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Each spring, our preschool students visit kindergarten classrooms to get a sense of what they can expect from the coming year’s big transition. They embrace their day-long challenge with a blend of trepidation and excitement, understanding on some intrinsic level that they are getting a glimpse of their future, seeing that it is close enough to touch. Although they may not have a full grasp of what is to come, they know that their lives are about to change.
Each spring, our graduating seniors prepare for their own big transition. With college and career on the horizon, they savor the last milestones of high school and proudly ready themselves to accept diplomas in front of family and friends. And as they look out across the crowd, they too know that their future draws nearer by the moment.
While our graduating seniors were once those young learners, they will soon become those graduates. This is their milestone, years in the making through diligent work and the help of teachers...
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Confronting racism in myself and others
BY POLLY MANN
There she was on Stephen Colbert’s show. She was beautiful. Photographs can be doctored up, but I’d seen too many of her (including the one on the book cover of “The New Jim Crow”) to be unaware. Michelle Alexander is one beautiful young woman. Besides which she’s smart—college professor smart. That’s what she is—a college professor at Ohio State University, who’s written this phenomenal aforementioned book. Not too long ago she was on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now.
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June
Nokomis Community Calendar
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Headwaters Foun-dation for Justice has graciously set up an easy way that you can donate to help the Communities United Against Police Brutality, Minnesota Imm-igrant Rights Action Committee and the Welfare Rights Committee to reestablish their committees after losing their offices and everything in them in the fire that destroyed Walker Church on Sunday, May 27.r
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
SUMMER
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR KIDS
The A.R.K. Summer Enrichment Program
Monday – Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (June 18 – Aug. 17)
New Creation Baptist Church
1414 E. 48th St.
The cost is $75 per week.
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June 2012 
