‘Cover Stories’ Archives
Dream Come True: New National Center for Norway in America
“Color it Indigo,” said Dewey Thorbeck, NH Architect, to portray water”'s mutual significance and beauty in Norway”'s fjords and Minnesota”'s deepest lakes. The vivid, eye-catching use of Indigo also recalls the strong cultural affinity of Norway and Minnesota. Welcome to Franklin Ave. and Ventura Village NH.By happenstance, Indigo”'s traditional meanings---service to humanity, integrity, sincerity, intuition, and perception---are fitting with the NH “Peace Initiative” and hope to enhance conversation culture, and contemplation. Indigo”'s deep midnight blue also suggests concentration and meditation.The opening of another cultural center on Franklin Avenue, being adjacent to Mindekirken””the Norwegian Memorial Lutheran Church at the west end of the American Indian Cultural Corridor, enhances this area as a “go to” location for the richest of cultural traditions, insights and education. BY ELIZABETH PLAETZ LORI, [...]
The Phillips Aquatic Center: A Jewel of equity and collaboration
By State Senate Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Hayden, DFL-Minneapolis; state Rep. Karen Clark, DFL-Minneapolis; Minneapolis City Council Members Abdi Warsame and Alondra Cano; Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Members Brad Bourn, John Erwin, Meg Forney, and Scott Vreeland; Evan Hall, Midtown Phillips Neighborhood Association board chair; Carol Pass, East Phillips Improvement Coalition board chair, and Denny Bennett, Minneapolis Swims board president. Minneapolis, the City of Lakes, has a dirty little secret. With one of the highest state drowning rates for children of color in the nation, Minneapolis has no public, community-accessible indoor pools offering year-round swimming instruction. Unfortunately, in Minneapolis, the opportunities to learn to swim, and reap the many health benefits that can come with swimming regularly, are too often reserved for those with means. On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 six of our nine Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) Commissioners voted [...]
