‘Miscellany’ Archives
Spark’d Studios coming to Phillips Community Center
By RAECHEL BOSCH Recording at Harrison Park. PHOTO: Courtesy Minneapolis Park and Rec Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is bringing a new Spark’d Studio and community room to Phillips Community Center. The center’s existing teen and multipurpose rooms, located just off the main lobby, are currently undergoing a full renovation. The redesigned space will feature updated furniture and new technology to support a wide range of afterschool youth programming, community activities, and special events. As part of the renovation, a dedicated office is also being added for a full-time Youth Technology and Career Skills Specialist. This staff member will mentor youth and lead afterschool programs focused on technology, creative exploration, career readiness, and skill-building opportunities. Making a movie. PHOTO: Courtesy Minneapolis Park and Rec Phillips Community Center will become the sixth Spark’d Studio operated through Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. [...]
Memories of Neil
By MATTIE WONG Spread from the Pine Bluff News. PHOTO: Courtesy Kathi Wong My grandfather, Neil Clark, was born in the 1920s in southern Arkansas into a poor farming family. He joined the Army as a young man, scarcely twenty, and fought in WWII. For the longest time, the only thing we knew about Neil in the war was that he had earned a Silver Star, but none of us knew how or why. The thing is, my grandfather never talked about the war. Not to anyone. Our family pieced together stories over the years, even going to a reunion of his infantry division in Memphis, Tennessee. There we learned Neil had been instrumental in keeping himself and three other soldiers safe after they had gotten separated from their battalion in France. In trying to return to their battalion, they had stumbled across a camp of German soldiers set up in small depression. Neil spearheaded a plan to shoot over the heads of the Germans from multiple angles, making it seem as if there were far more [...]
