‘Miscellany’ Archives
Learn Computer Skills at New, Enhanced Waite House Location: 2323 11th & 13th Avenues
By Wes Durham, Waite House AmeriCorps Staff Waite House gained a brand new computer center this past April, and now they”'re really putting it to work! The Urban Opportunities program at Waite House offers 3 different levels of computer classes oriented towards workplace skills. Computer Basics is for people brand new to computers, and in it they learn to use the mouse, type, use email, and navigate the internet. In Computers for the Workplace students learn about Microsoft Word and Excel, two programs essential for many jobs these days. And in a special new class students can earn the Northstar Basic Computer Skills Certificate and prove to employers they”'re ready to use their computer skills to get the job done. In addition to classes, Waite House also offers one on one computer training and employment assistance. If you are interested in computer education or in employment assistance call 612-721-1681 and ask for Wes or John, email durhamw@puc-mn.org, or enquire in [...]
LIFE OF JOHN
Today NPR plays John”'s songs ”” the ones guaranteed to get you, “In My Life,” “Beautiful Boy,” “Starting Over” ”” and I say to Krista, “This grief will be with us as long as we live.” John was finally such a sane person not because he was free of neuroses and contradictions ”” he wasn”'t ”” but because he so clearly wanted to be sane, adult, decent. He could have coasted the rest of his days on the Beatles godhead, but chose not to, put himself in J. Edgar”'s sights for the sake of peace. He leveled with us how it felt to be a working class hero. He got right with the goddess on the subject of women, and with tender attention and humility gave years to fathering little son Sean. “We have grown,” he sang to Yoko. The last morning of his life he told an interviewer he hoped to be around for a long time. Then from the crowd the cold gun nosed [...]
The Alley Newspaper Bound for the Future
Once anything is printed in The Alley Newspaper it becomes an available part of recorded history. All of The Alley Newspaper”'s issues since it began in 1976 through 2007 have been reprinted on long-lasting book paper and bound into thirteen volumes. There is a set available at the Hennepin County at Franklin Community Library on Franklin Avenue & 13th St. and the Central Library on Nicollet Mall. The Hennepin Library will be reprinting and binding all of the issues from 2008 through the December 2012 issue early next year. The Minnesota Historical Society also has all issues of The Alley on microfilm. Put it in The Alley and it will endure.
