Minneapolis, MN
Advocates hope to make Minneapolis bird sanctuary more accessible
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A neighborhood group is nearing its fundraising objective to assist create a brand new, extra accessible expertise at one of many Twin Cities’ most treasured spots for birding.
The Roberts Hen Sanctuary in Minneapolis spans 31 acres in Lyndale Park, north of Lake Harriet. The spot is particularly cherished among the many Minnesota birding group for the spectacular vary of warblers and different migratory species seen on the sanctuary every spring and fall.
Associates of Roberts Hen Sanctuary, a nonprofit group devoted to the sanctuary’s preservation, is partnering with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on efforts to enhance accessibility on the web site with out compromising the habitat.
The group is at the moment round $4,000 wanting reaching its $30,000 fundraising objective for a brand new, wood terrace deliberate to be constructed on the east customer’s entrance.
“It’s a part of an extended dialogue about what to do about entry to the sanctuary,” mentioned Stephen Greenfield, the group’s president.
The prevailing customer’s shelter on the Roberts Hen Sanctuary in Minneapolis, Minn. Photograph by Christine Schuster.
The terrace designed for the sanctuary is deliberate to exchange the prevailing entrance shelter. In contrast to the present construction, the terrace will supply guests a platform to take a seat and observe the wildlife.
Mark Paller, a longtime Minneapolis resident who visits the sanctuary usually, mentioned that is particularly vital for park customers with disabilities.
Paller, who makes use of a wheelchair, leads guided hen outings within the Twin Cities for folks with a spread of mobility challenges. He recollects as soon as organizing a go to to Veterans Park in Richfield, the place there’s vast, paved trails and loads of accessible parking.
“Half of the folks that got here on our stroll didn’t use any gadgets, simply had problem strolling,” Paller remembers. “To get a little bit greater than 1,000 toes was a problem — no quantity of paving or leveling would assist them.”
Again to the drafting board, Paller got down to as an alternative set up outings to the hen feeders behind the customer’s heart on the Minnesota Valley Nationwide Wildlife Refuge. It’s a stability, he mentioned, between what you’re in a position to see and the trouble it takes to get there.
On the Roberts Hen Sanctuary, Paller mentioned he’s in a position to navigate the filth path in his wheelchair, however added that no “two wheelchair customers are alike.” For him, the plastic boardwalk masking a portion of the path is a larger concern than the tree roots and different obstacles on the filth path.
“I wouldn’t even attempt it,” he mentioned, including the flood-prone boardwalk is commonly slippery and harmful.
However, pondering of the birders he is met on his guided outings, Paller mentioned he is hopeful the addition of the terrace and viewing platform — and probably extra benches — will go a great distance in the direction of making the sanctuary extra accessible to folks with disabilities.
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A plastic boardwalk on the path on the Roberts Hen Sanctuary in Minneapolis, Minn. Photograph by Christine Schuster | Deliver Me The Information.
Greenfield, with the Associates of Roberts Hen Sanctuary, mentioned they’d wish to see the boardwalk eliminated, however typically oppose paved trails instead. Quite, a boardwalk much like the one on the Eloise Butler Wildflower Backyard is the kind of amenity they covet.
Robin Smothers, a spokesperson for the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, mentioned there aren’t any plans to take away the prevailing plastic boardwalk, however putting in one thing much like the walkway at Eloise Butler has been thought of and stays a chance.
If such a boardwalk have been put in, it will lead guests from the prevailing fundamental path to the wetland space for waterfowl viewing.
As for pavement, Smothers mentioned there hasn’t been any consideration of paving trails throughout the sanctuary. Quite, trails on the location are deliberate to be both boardwalk or pure surfaces, like agricultural lime or current soils.
To bolster fundraising efforts for the terrace, the Associates of Roberts Hen Sanctuary is holding an artwork public sale, impressed by the Associates of Sax-Zim Lavatory’s “tiny hen” public sale.
By September 25, “tiny wildlife artwork” donations are being collected for an upcoming artwork sale.
The $30,000 the group is hoping to boost will complement one other $20,000 drawn from the East Harriet Neighborhood park dedication funds.
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Minneapolis, MN
Friends remember Minneapolis DJ Liara Tsai’s passion, activism for trans community
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City of Minneapolis hosts athletes, tourists as Olympic trials continue ahead of Paris 2024
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The Olympic Games Paris 2024 are in 29 days, and U.S. gymnasts are in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the U.S. Olympic trials. Sixteen women and 20 men are vying for a total of 10 spots; Five for women, five for men.
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Each team will have two alternates.
All will be decided Saturday night for the men, and Sunday night for the women.
Minneapolis, known as the Bold North has been dubbed Gymnastics City, USA.
Athletes have been competing inside the Minneapolis Target Center.
On Thursday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry kicked off Promenade du Nord, a Parisian street celebration with local makers, performers, artists, vendors, and outdoor cafes.
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Theresa Souza and her sister Angela Steidl are from Oregon. “I did a year in France when I was in high school, and I really wanted to go to Paris but it wasn’t going to happen and so I saw the tryouts were here in Minneapolis and so I was like, ‘I can do that,’ so I got my sister and here we are.”
The two have family in Minneapolis that they’re visiting.
Tim Daggett, a gymnastics analyst with NBC Sports said, “Every athlete that’s competing out on the floor, men and women, they have dreamed of this moment. They’ve cherished it. They’ve planned, they’ve struggled just to get to this point. And, you know, it’s all kind of on the line. And so, it’s very, very exciting. I remember back to the Olympic trials that I had been in, and it is a very, it’s a pressure cooker, no question about it. I’m excited.”
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Soul of the Southside Festival spotlights Juneteenth celebrations in Minneapolis – Mshale
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In celebration of Juneteenth, thousands gathered on Minnehaha Avenue and Lake Street for the Soul of the Southside Festival. The goal of the festival was to create space centered around Blackness, kinship, and community, according to the Black-owned creative hub, The Legacy Building. The event brought south Minneapolis into the limelight by exhibiting its Black creativity, entrepreneurship, togetherness, and persistence.
The festival was a collaboration between various businesses based in south Minneapolis. Hook and Ladder Theater, Moon Palace Books, Arbeiter Brewing and the historic Coliseum building hosted events throughout the day, boasting a bit of everything from live music and a film screening to an art exhibition and children’s face painting. The event also spotlighted radio stations KRSM and KFAI, who both highlighted classics through local deejays.
Juneteenth is an annual holiday recognizing the end of slavery in the United States. Although President Abraham Lincoln made the Jan. 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which ended centuries of enslavement of Black people in the Confederate southern states, it wasn’t until two years later, on June 19, 1965, that the last enslaved people were freed. Juneteenth marks the day Major Gen. Gordan Granger marched into Galveston, Texas, with 2,000 soldiers and announced that all slaves were free through General Order No. 3.
The following year, a group of formerly enslaved people celebrated the decree on the first anniversary. Since then, Juneteenth has gained more significance. In 2021, it became a federally-recognized holiday.
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The celebrations included the official reopening of the Coliseum, the iconic building on Lake Street, which was damaged by fire during the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery had an expansive display on the 1st floor of the building, recalling the struggle for Black liberation in Minnesota from the 19th century up until the 1960s. On the 2nd Floor, attendees were encouraged to view their bodies and cultural knowledge as a tool to dismantle systemic racism through various events like a drum circle and a body reclamation session.
“The first thing that people who want to colonize you gotta do is control your food source,” said Chef Lachelle Cunningham, who led a class about ancestral food waves. “If we want to be free, then we have to have control over our food, so that has to do with where our food comes from, knowing that, having some control over that, growing our food [and] sourcing it. A lot of our culture is in our food and how we do things, and so if we lose connection to that culture, a lot of times we lose connection to our food and the importance of that and what is good for our bodies.”
A section of the 1st floor paid homage to victims of police brutality, featuring spray painted portraits of Floyd and Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old shot and killed by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio.
“Nobody can ever shut us down,” said LaToya White, a vendor and the owner of Angels Delightful Creations. “We [are] ten toes down. We’re not going to let one thing impact us and let anyone take from us because we’ve been taking from our entire lives, our ancestors and everything. So this is time for us to rise up. Having it at this location [lets] them know that we are here and we’re here to stay.”
A block away from the Coliseum, food trucks lined the barricaded stretch of Minnehaha Avenue. Several lines of over 50 people waited for samosas, tacos and smoked meats. As old friends hugged and convened along the bustling road, jazzy melodies played through a street performer’s saxophone.
The Hook and Ladder, in partnership with Black Music America, had live performances throughout the day. A younger crowd filled the outdoor Black Music America stage space to hear performances from Twin Cities-based artists like sibling band NUNNABOVE. Audience members could head inside the lushly decorated building to get drinks from the bar or check out the Legacy Stage to see other acts.
For a quieter and more serene environment, attendees could head to Moon Palace Books, an independent bookstore that held storytelling for children earlier in the day and later featured a film screening of “One Million Experiments”, which explores the possibility of a safe society without police or a prison system. In the bookstore parking lot, Black-owned business vendors sold pastries, dashikis, tarot decks, plants and more.
Next door, Arbeiter Brewing hosted an all-day beer garden, with an art fair featuring local visual artists — some actively working on pieces through the fair.
“We have to keep the story alive,” said Cunningham. “I think there’s an opportunity to continue to keep the historical story alive, but also for people to continue to tell their stories through these types of events and opportunities and show resilience. I think it’s really about the resilience of our people, from our enslaved ancestors to those who came after the civil rights movement to those who are still fighting in the civil rights movement; it’s connecting those future generations.”
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About Kwot Anwey
Kwot Anwey is a reporting intern with Mshale and majors in journalism at Boston University.
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