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Library News March ’23
By CARZ NELSONAll information listed here is accurate as of February 15, 2023. For the most recent information, check out the library website at www.hclib.org.FRANKLIN LIBRARY HOURS Monday 9 AM to 5 PM Tuesday 12 PM to 8 PM Wednesday 12 PM to 8 PM Thursday 12 PM to 8 PM Friday 9 AM to 5 PM Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM Sunday 12 PM to 5 PMCHEMISTS IN THE LIBRARYFor grades 1-12. Drop in and do an easy hands-on chemistry activity. Minnesota American Chemical Society volunteers will lead the experiments. Materials will be provided. Hosmer LibrarySaturday, March 4 at 1:30 to 3:30 PMKUMIHIMO BRAIDED BRACELETS FOR TEENSFor grades 6-12. Learn kumihimo, a Japanese eight-stranded braiding technique with intricate patterns that look complicated, but are easy to master. Finish your piece off with a clasp for a fashionable bracelet. Materials will be provided. Registration required. You can register online at hclib.com. Space is limited, so register [...]
Metro Transit: Not Bad, But Not Good Either
by JOHN CHARLES WILSONMetro Transit announced its quarterly service changes just in time for this month’s alley. Unfortunately, the promise of better service after a hiring blitz isn’t ready for prime time yet. The changes this time around are very minor. For routes that affect the Phillips community, these are the only changes happening on March 18th: The D Line will have minor schedule and trip adjustments for all days of the week. Route 5 will have time and trip adjustments from 5 to 10 minutes, all days of the week. The first Sunday southbound trip will be 9 minutes later, the last northbound trip will be 4-5 minutes later every day, and the last southbound trip will be 1-3 minutes later every day. Route 22 will have two weekday afternoon southbound trips from Brooklyn Center switched. The 3:36 PM trip will leave Brooklyn Center 2 minutes later and go via Penn instead of Dupont Avenue, and the 3:56 PM trip will go via Dupont instead of Penn, with no time change. This [...]
South Side Destructor—Part II City Leaders (Finally) Arrive at a Solution
The exterior of the plant looks much as it did when this “state-of-the-art” incinerator was built in 1939. It cost about $250,000. Funding came from the city’s operating budget and from the federal government’s Works Progress Administration. Photo Credit: Tim McCall The 180-foot-tall smokestack was decommissioned in 1971. Today it is home to a red-tailed hawk. Photo Credit: Tim McCall By SUE HUNTER WEIR208th in a SeriesIn the summer of 1938, no one denied that Minneapolis needed a new incinerator to deal with its overabundance of garbage. The problem was not new: the debate about where to locate the incinerator had already dragged on for ten years and there was no solution in sight. Untreated garbage was piling up, creating a health hazard. From the beginning, the City of Minneapolis Engineer’s Office had favored what was referred to as “the so-called Layman’s site” (by that time, the cemetery was officially Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial [...]
