‘Miscellany’ Archives
Transit: Adopting bus stops
By JOHN CHARLES WILSON Hopefully, when this is published, winter will be gone for the next seven months. However, since ideas take time to implement, this may be the ideal time to write about it: One of the worst things about riding buses is waiting at snow-filled bus stops. You have four choices, none of which are really safe: 1.You can wait on the (possibly icy or unshoveled) sidewalk, and climb over the snowbank when the bus comes, assuming the driver actually stops for you. Sometimes the snowbank isn”'t as solid as it looks and you sink as much as two or three feet deep into it and then have to try to get on a bus quickly! Not fun! 2.You can stand on top of the snowbank, which is risky because you don”'t know how sturdy the snowbank is, and you might fall in, or worse, fall into the street, just as the bus is coming! Yikes! 3.You can walk to the (hopefully shoveled) corner, then walk back on the edge of the street outside the snowbank, and stand there even [...]
New coffee shop opens
HARVEY WINJE QARIBUNI COFFEE has opened! Daily 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. across 15th Ave. from Avalon/HOBT. Windows in photo open fully-warm days, a fireplace for cooler and a hallway connects to the QURUXLOW Restaurant completing a 14th-15th Ave. evolution from previous stores, Peterson-Chrysler/Plymouth, Kawasaki Motorcycle, a gas station, and Kaplan Bros. Clothing, including a dust-free concrete parking lot.
In brief
Procession for peace April 14 Pr. Patrick Cabello HanselProcession of Peace on Palm Sunday led by St. Paul”'s Lutheran Church. Each year, St. Paul”'s Lutheran Church and its Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts sponsors a Procession of Peace on Palm Sunday. Attendees walk through the neighborhood, stopping to lift up concerns of the community, such as safety, the environment, youth, immigration and poverty. “Especially this year, with all the division in our society, we are committed to walking a different way: one of welcome and justice,” say organizers. All are invited to this year”'s walk on Sunday, April 14, noon, St. Paul”'s Lutheran Church, 2742 15th Ave S. For more information, call 612-724-3862 or e-mail stpaulscreate@gmail.com. Save the date for these events: ”¢ Thursday, May 9: 5-8 p.m.: Semilla and St. Paul”'s Night at Midtown Global Market: Poetry by youth and adults, a youth photography show, music [...]
