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PCH: What Did You Just Say?
By MARTI MALTBY Part of the Peace House Community Journal Marti Maltby Recently, a discussion about bathrooms at Peace House Community took a strange turn. I and several community members were talking about the problem we have with individuals camping out in the bathrooms. We have two bathrooms and we serve about 120 members a day, so we need everyone to get in and out quickly. The discussion migrated to the lack of public bathrooms in general. One of the members said that, in all of downtown Minneapolis, the only bathrooms that homeless individuals can easily access are at the library and the hospital. All the other buildings and stores prevent non-customers from using their facilities. There are undoubtedly a variety of reasons behind this, from prejudice to drug use to the inconvenience of cleaning up after someone tries to take a shower in a sink.As we discussed the situation, someone said, “Yeah, there are just a few people who ruin it for the rest of us.” She meant [...]
Returning and Searching: Pre-Postlude
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL Patrick Cabello Hansel Searching…Returning…what’s next? Finding? Becoming? Next month’s chapter will be the final one in this second novella. We will—or will we?—find out what happens to our little holy family. Will they find Lupita? Will Agnes save them or betray them one more time? What will happen to their nemesis Brian Fleming and the forces he represents?A little recap is in order. In the first novella, “Searching” set roughly in 2006, Angel and Luz meet under trying circumstances. An immigration raid, an assault, the uncovering of family secrets. And the mystery of their shared ancestor. Mateo Kelly Hidalgo, who lived in the swale (East Phillips)—a hundred years ago, and who may still haunt the place. Luz and Angel battle evil from the present and the past. They traveled through many parts of Phillips: Maria’s Café, In the Heart of the Beast Theatre, Mercado Central, and ended up underneath the baptismal window at St. Paul’s [...]
