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Sunday December 21st 2025
South Minneapolis Housing Fair at New Location
By Margo Ashmore
Homeowners can get their home improvement questions answered and find ways to bring creative visions to reality at the South Minneapolis Housing Fair Saturday, April 13, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Note this year”'s new location:
2121 Lake Street
Minneapolis Sports Center behind the Midtown YWCA.
Near the Hiawatha Light Rail stop on Lake Street, it”'s convenient by bus, walking, bike and car with parking in two lots.
The 19th is free to the public & provides useful local contractor connections and neighborhood-consumer resources for homeowners and prospective homeowners. Attendees chat with experts among the numerous carefully vetted exhibitors covering many aspects of home improvement.
10 a.m.-2 p.m portion of the 5 hour Fair will be a Hennepin Fix-It Clinic. It”'s an opportunity for consumers to bring non-functioning small household appliances to see if and how they can be brought back to life. Other fun features: Bird feeder building for kids of all ages, power tool door prizes, Ask an Expert and the Natedogs food truck.
Four special 30-minute presentations:
- 11:00 a.m. Remodeling Your Home Through Social Media
- Noon: Financing Home Improvements
- 1:00 p.m. Front Door Feng Shui: Welcoming Opportunities
- 2 p.m. Growing Monarch Habitat.
The South Minneapolis Housing Fair is produced to benefit all Minneapolis residents, by representatives of several neighborhood organizations, South High Community Education, and a dozen other corporate and institutional sponsors.… Read the rest “South Minneapolis Housing Fair at New Location”
“Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food”
Hello, This month we are very lucky to have an article written by Dr. Sara Jean Barrett, a Naturopathic Physician in Bloomington also doing health sessions here at Running Wolf. www.altsolutionsforhealth.comÂ
”“ Connie Norman
By Sara Jean Barrett
Hippocrates, a man commonly known as the father of modern medicine, is responsible for this insightful quote. In 431 B.C. he was really on to something. Our cells are made from and operate on what we consume. Throughout history many cultures have recognized the power of eating certain foods for all sorts of ailments. In the modern era food can be more than our medicine, it can also be our poison. We live in an age where we are surrounded by damaging products in our food; refined sugar, trans fatty acids, and high fructose corn syrup just to name a few. Additives, fillers and synthetic compounds are rampant in our foods and we must be diligent to avoid them. Even over 2,000 years later we still have nature”'s perfect foods that promote health. In this article I am going to highlight some “super foods” that can have medicinal properties.
Wild blueberries– these tiny fruits pack a giant anti-oxidant punch! Wild blueberries (as opposed to cultivated) may even have more antioxidant power.… Read the rest ““Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food””
“The longer you lived, the longer you were likely to live.”
The slightest and subltest “tilt” of the tombstone after many decades of freeze/thaw cycles is one of the hundreds of such examples of Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery “patina.” Of the ages.
Abraham Fletcher died on August 25, 1854 at the age of 87. Margaret, who was born in 1772 died in 1861 at the age of 89 years and five days.
Margaret and Abraham Fletcher are buried in a family plot (Lot 9, Block B) with four other family members including their son Asa and his wife Nancy. Nancy died in 1865 at the age of 41, and Asa died in 1889 at the age of 81.
By Sue Hunter Weir
100th in a Series
Abraham Fletcher, born the longest ago — 1776.
People often ask who is the oldest burial in the cemetery. They don”'t mean whose was the first burial or who lived the longest. What they”'re asking is who was born the longest ago.
That honor appears to belong to Abraham Fletcher who was born October 13, 1766, in Mendon, Massachusetts. He and his wife Margaret Crocker Fletcher moved to Territorial Minnesota with several of their adult children sometime in the early 1850s. At the time that they moved, Abraham was well into his eighties.… Read the rest ““The longer you lived, the longer you were likely to live.””
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