‘Miscellany’ Archives
Franklin Learning Center Stories
The city in 2065 Ogaso FLC Student working with Tutor Joan City will be a most beautiful city. They will build a new model. The government will hire more security. The people will live in suburbs; government people will live in the cities ”“ machines will clean the cities. It will be paradise. Learning English. Amina My name is Amina Ahmed. I am a student in the Franklin Learning Center. I learn math and English reading and writing. When I came in the library, I didn”'t speak English or read or write. Now I can speak English well, and read and write well. I like Franklin library center because of the improvement to my English reading and writing. Thank you tutors and staff. My Cousin Bisharo My cousin, Ahmed, came to the United States in 2005. He is a very hard worker, but he didn”'t know the United States. He worked for six months in a factory. The factory made meat. My cousin came to work one day and his boss sent him to do the washing. While he was [...]
The Franklin Learning Center
Franklin Learning Center (FLC) provides adults with resources to educate themselves. Learners, instructors and trained volunteers work collaboratively, trusting each other”'s wisdom and experience. In partnership with other local organizations, we create a vibrant, cross-cultural learning community. At FLC, people are empowered with the knowledge they need to fulfill their professional, family and community roles. Services FLC is an adult education program of Hennepin County Library. It is located in the historic Franklin Library in the Phillips Community of Minneapolis. FLC provides free, flexible instruction tailored to individual learner”'s needs. Working one-to-one and in small groups with staff and volunteer tutors, learners study reading, writing, math, social studies and science. Learners also practice speaking and listening, gain computer literacy, and prepare for the GED and U.S. citizenship tests. Every learner is encouraged to get a library card, and FLC [...]
Vine Church, Good Templar, Winget Mfg., Burma-Shave, Furniture Barn
BY STEVE SANDBERG, for the Committee The building at 2019 East Lake Street is like a “cat with nine lives;” that is, flexible, resilient, and able to land on its feet regardless of fall height. Thanks to all of you who have shown interest in the history of the Burma Shave building. Since the December issue of The Alley Newspaper”'s first Burma-Shave Building article, we have registered with the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota, and they will help us do a historic survey. We have learned through older neighborhood residents including memories of a resident who passed away last year at age 102, that the building was originally the historic Vine Congregational Church. It was after that, among other things, a meeting place for a Norwegian chapter of the International Order of Good Templar, and Winget Manufacturing, which made bonnets and ladies furnishings. On December 10th the Board of Corcoran Neighborhood Organization voted to request of the MPS that a historic [...]
