‘Cover Stories’ Archives
EPIC $50,000 to Phillips Pool Doubled by Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
By Brad Pass The 7,000 children and youth of the Phillips Community will once again have a place to learn to swim. If one young person”'s life is saved from drowning by this huge effort to bring swimming back to these neighborhoods with immense “kids of color” population, all the blood, sweat and tears will have been worth it. The fact that every drowning victim in Mpls., the City of Lakes, for several years has been a youth from a diverse community who was not able to swim and without an available and affordable place to learn has motivated this project. The Phillips Pool project is intent on resolving this serious inequity of the City. The East Phillips Improvement Coalition (EPIC) has been in the forefront of the community wide effort to save and renovate the defunct swimming pool in the Phillips Community Center, 2323 11th Ave. S, Minneapolis. East Phillips Neighborhood members supported the pool in a series of votes to allocate $50,000 of EPIC”'s NRP [...]
