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News to Use March ’24
Free AARP class helps protect against online scams and crimeDo you know how to protect your online identity effectively? This is where AARP can help. Online scams and cybercrime remain on the rise, making it crucial to safeguard your passwords and keep your personal information private online. This free event will discuss basic precautions you can take to help protect yourself from cybercriminals, including tips to help you recognize the signs and avoid phishing scams. This FREE class is a partnership between The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and AARP to help people safeguard their identity online! Sign up today to reserve your spot for “Fraud: Vigilance Against Cybercrime”. FreeWednesday, March 6, 202410:30-11:30 amMary Merrill MPRB Headquarters2117 West River Road, Minneapolis MN 55411 Register at: http://tinyurl.com/cc5px8zj Minneapolis property owners can enter lottery to buy low-cost treesCity offering 1,000 shade and evergreen treesMinneapolis [...]
March ’24 Events
Oscar Howe, Yanktonai Dakota, Creation of Weotanica, 1975. From the exhibit Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers, on view through March 16 at the University of Minnesota Katherine E. Nash Gallery. Source: UNIVERSITY of SOUTH DAKOTA In The Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater will host three community puppet building workshops at the Midtown Global Market this month. Puppet is by Jeong Ae Neal. Photo: ELINA KOTLYAR An Indian classical dancer performs at Midtown Global Market’s 2023 Holi Festival. Photo: LAURA HULSCHER Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge KeepersThrough March 16Katherine E. Nash GalleryRegis Center for Art405 21st Avenue SFreeDreaming Our Futures marks the opening of the University of Minnesota’s George Morrison Center for Indigenous Arts, and features work in a wide variety of painting media and esthetic approaches by 29 artists including Frank Big Bear, David [...]
Protect Pollinators and Your Precious Time
By RUSS HENRY Russ Henry. Photo: MINNEHAHA FALLS LANDSCAPING There are better ways to spend your spring and summer than mowing the lawn. The noise, smell of exhaust fumes, heat, and humidity add up to a less than pleasant chore. How many perfect Saturday afternoons have we sacrificed to appease the fickle gods of sod? Time-wasting may not be the only concern when it comes to lawn maintenance. We also need to ask ourselves if we’re doing right by the environment in the little patch of Earth, we call our lawn. Many homeowners are choosing to reclaim their weekends and support wildlife through a transition to no-mow bee lawns. We need bees. Seventy-five percent of the world’s plants and 30% of human food crops depend on bees and other pollinators to reproduce. The way we manage lawns and landscapes can have a profound impact on bee health. Common landscaping practices such as short mowing and pesticide use leave little support for bees in our landscapes. All of our damage [...]
