‘Miscellany’ Archives
Midtown Corridor Study: How about Traffic Calming Initiatives?
A Midtown Corridor transit alternatives study recommends rail in the Midtown Greenway and enhanced bus service (EBS)on Lake St. as the best long-term transit solution as funding is available. This Locally Preferred Alternative is by the Policy Advisory Committee (PAC); community and business representatives & Metro.Council, HN County and City of Mpls. appointed officials. 4.4-mile transitway between the METRO Blue Line”'s Lake St./Midtown Station and the proposed West Lake Station on the METRO Green Line Extension (Southwest LRT). Improved stations would be built every .5 mile on Lake St. Buses would continue operating in mixed traffic with less stops, off-board fare payment and signal priority. The improvements would extend into StP on Marshall Ave. connecting with the METRO Green Line”'s Snelling Ave. Station on University Ave. Midtown Greenway rail would run south of the bike trail with single-car trains. EBS is better traveling shorter distances; [...]
Dr. Arne Anderson”'s “Mission”: SERVE!
 By Harvey Winje Joining two men with insatiable appetites for knowledge and with variant but unique connections to Phillips Community for a cordial visit over coffee and banana bread was an honor and an education. Arnold “Arne” Anderson, was the founder, first Medical Director and CEO of Children”'s Hospital from 1967, before it opened in 1973 and until 1987 and the founder of the Teenage Medical Center.  The Dr. Arnold S. Anderson and Rusk P. Anderson Education Center at Children”'s-Mpls is named for him and his wife. Arne Anderson, 96, is a voracious reader so we had loaned a copy of “Wendell Phillips Liberty”'s Hero” by Professor James B. Stewart to Arne. He appreciated learning about Wendell and was surprised to learn Phillips”' own goals and hard work were similar to that for which he had worked all his life. (more…)
Donna Neste retires as Mount Olive Neighborhood Ministries Coordinator
Donna Neste is retiring from her many years of service as the Coordinator of Neighborhood Ministries at Mount Olive Church 31st and Chicago Av. Donna has served Mount Olive and the neighborhood admirably for many decades. Mount Olive is honoring and celebrating Donna”'s ministry on Sunday March 16th at the closing of the 10:45 AM Worship Service. Friends and neighbors are welcome. The Alley Newspaper also thanks Donna for years of support of the paper with writing and most especially with coordinating delivery of the paper to many blocks each issue neighborhood youth.
