‘Alley Gallery of Loss’ Archives
Karen Clark: July 23, 1945 – June 30, 2026
Determined. Fierce. Driven. Passionate. Kind. Trailblazer. Giant. Mentor. Karen Joy Clark, in a spontaneous joyous moment in the success of the Phillips Community’s Roof Depot project. Over decades, Karen provided consistent, steady, fierce, yet compassionate, leadership on behalf of the Phillips Community as a legislator and a community leader----childhood lead poisoning prevention legislation, preventing a HN Cty Garbage Transfer Station built near Little Earth, designation by the EPA of the Arsenic Triangle as a Superfund site, Cumulative Health Impact Analysis to protect residents and more. Photo by Jacquelyn Zita, Karen’s beloved wife, key supporter, and partner in serving the community and seeking justice. By CATHY STROBEL-AYERS These are just a few of the words that come to mind as I remember Karen Clark. And even those words don’t seem like enough to capture her tireless drive to make a better world for communities that had to fight for a place at the [...]
Feature alley Articles: Then and Now
Block 5 Needs of news guides what will appear in each alley newspaper. That news takes different forms. One form is Feature articles that are more in depth than a brief news story. Features may be written by people that are part of the story or more objective, but never totally unbiased... Featured articles during 50 years of alley issues have been about the American Indian Movement, Arsenic Pollution, Child Abuse, Brutality by Police, Crime, the Garbage Transfer Station Campaign, Little Earth of United Tribes Housing, Phillips Jr. HS, Phillips Works, Phillips Pool and Gym, Redlining, the Rise & Fall of PNIA, POP, PCDC, PNHT, and SMC, other organizations, and more. The Loss and Light essay on page 12 is a Feature story by a writer who is part of the story.Within that story, Block 5 is mentioned. Block 5 has been a Feature story in several issues. What is Block 5? An agreement was made by two hospitals and Phillips neighbors to define and limit what healthcare expansion [...]
Gallery of Light and Loss
Part 7 By HARVEY WINJE Positive-SumPost-TenionThis 7 chapter essay on connections and loss of connections between people, places, and events also explains times of loss of trust. Those losses have occasionally led to enlightenment and inspiration moving forward. It has been a welcome experience even to have that transformation happen even as I have written this.I am a novice to loss having lived for only eighty-five and one half years on this land stolen centuries ago.Indigenous people lost land and trust, but their connection to ancestors, soul of culture, language, and the essence of the tangible world survived.I have rich memories. I struggle to learn from them and bring light into my life from the crystalized gems that can outshine the darkness of losses. “The whole was greater than the sum of the parts.” It wasn’t called Block 5 when my family moved there in 1941. It was an unusual block including several duplex houses, four single family houses, five [...]
