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Sunday December 21st 2025
MEMORIAL DAY at PIONEERS AND SOLDIERS CEMETERY Monday, MAY 27 10 AM
145th Memorial Day Observance
Join us for the 145th Memorial Day Observance at Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery. There will be speakers, an honor guard firing team, student leaders from the Transition Charter School and the wonderful Seward Community Concert Band. The traditional observance begins at 10 a.m.
“Talk” and “Tales”
At 1:00 PM, after a short break, attendees may choose to enjoy a “Talk” about the history of the Cemetery and some anecdotes from “Tales” about the lives of some of those people buried there. The talk may extend into a tour for those interested.
“The cat”'s out of the bag.”
The Annual Memorial Service,
Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery by Sue Hunter Weir,
volunteer Cemetery cleanups, plantings, flower embellishments, flag postings,
Related Images:
Ada Mollan, a Pioneer of Mental Health Aid
The Mollan family ran a private hospital on land now part of Matthews Park in the Seward Neighborhood. Ada Mollan, the oldest daughter, matron or proprietress, died on April 15, 1959 at the age of 79. Since the cemetery had been officially closed to future burials in the 1920s, the City Council needed to approve her burial in the family plot. Ada Mollan is buried in Lot 105, Block A with two of her nieces, her grandmother, brother, mother and one of two step-mothers.
Photo by Sue Hunter Weir
By Sue Hunter Weir
Imagine that it”'s 1905 and that someone you love is mentally ill. Medical professionals and the courts recognize that there is such a thing as mental illness but they don”'t know what to do about it. There are no medications to prescribe and talk therapy as doesn”'t exist. The only available “treatment” is confinement in a State Hospital for the Insane or, for less serious cases, a private hospital.
The Mollan family ran a private hospital at 2429 Twenty-seventh Avenue South (on land that is now part of Matthews Park in the Seward Neighborhood). In city directories, Ada Mollan, the oldest daughter, was listed as the matron or proprietress of the hospital that she and her father started sometime in the first decade of the 20th century.… Read the rest “Ada Mollan, a Pioneer of Mental Health Aid”
No Hurdles Between You and Running Wolf. Run-on Over!
By Connie Norman
Hello from Running Wolf Fitness Center! We all know that the days are getting longer and warmer, meaning it”'s time to pull yourself out from the comfort of your winter layers and revive your sluggish energy levels and winter blues wobble with some exercise at Running Wolf!
But finding what motivates you and keeping it up to step into your exercise gear and get active can be harder than you think.
“Motivation is a lot more complex than people realize. Motivation is defined as ”˜the process that initiates, guides and maintains goal-oriented behaviors”'. It is therefore not the simple fact of turning on a motivational switch. You actually have to attack motivation from lots of angles to then find the recipe to ”˜get going!
There is no magic pill and no secret concoction that will put you on the path to long-term fitness and health. Some keys to success are: the right motivation, knowledge and tools and a low cost neighborhood fitness center like Running Wolf Fitness Center.
Running Wolf Fitness Center memberships are only $10 dollars a month for individuals and $30 dollars a month for a family of three or more living in the same household.… Read the rest “No Hurdles Between You and Running Wolf. Run-on Over!”
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