Archive for November, 2014
Phillips Clean Sweep
The 2014 Phillips Clean Sweep was an incredible success. The weather was perfect and the best part of the day was the great time all the residents and volunteers from all four Phillips Neighborhoods had. In the three hours between Breakfast at the Welna Hardware parking lot & Lutheran Social Services AND Lunch & Entertainment at Stewart Park, neighbors removed an amazing 28,580 lbs. of trash from the 'hood. That total does not include untallied mountains of recyclable bottles, cans and paper. The Annual Phillips Clean Sweep is the largest such event in Minneapolis and is truly a community building experience. The 2015 Phillips Clean Sweep will be on Saturday, October 10th, 2015. Put it on your calendar and don't miss it.
124 Year History of Franklin Library Reflects Community, U.S. and World events
By Cassie Warholm-Wohlenhaus This year the Franklin Library celebrates its 100th year serving a large area now called Phillips Community and Elliot Park, Whittier, Corcoran, and Powderhorn Park Neighborhoods. Exploring this history through research into the library”'s annual reports and other documents from 1914 to 2014 has revealed a fascinating and intimate bond between a community and its library. 2014 marks 100 years of service in the beautiful Carnegie library building at 1314 E. Franklin Avenue, but the library as an organization predates the building. It originally operated out of two rented rooms in the A.J. Bernier building at Franklin and 17th starting in 1890. In the library”'s earliest days this was a neighborhood largely of Scandinavian immigrants, and a huge collection of Swedish, Norwegian and Danish books and newspapers was in constant demand. An influx of Jewish immigrants in the 1920s added Yiddish and Hebrew to the languages heard at Franklin. The life [...]
