News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Sunday December 21st 2025
Heart Health-Tracking Running Wolf
By Connie Norman
Hello from Running Wolf Fitness Center. Â I have asked one of our partners ”“Indian Health Board of Minneapolis Inc. staff- person- Maria Krisch-Heart Disease Prevention Specialist to share her knowledge and information with you this month. Thanks Maria!
By Maria Krisch
Last month was Heart Health Month, which gives us this wonderful opportunity to talk about heart health in the community. Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death for American Indians and Alaskan Natives and others. Many of the risk factors are things that we can do something about through simple lifestyle changes like eating better and being more physically active. Some of the biggest risk factors include high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
High Blood Pressure: A good way to think about blood pressure is to think about a garden hose. When you turn on the hose, water comes out slowly but surely just like blood pressure brings blood through our arteries. When you put your finger over the end the pressure increases which can be helpful if you need to spray something further away. This same pressure increase is not helpful in our arteries, though, and can cause significant damage to our hearts, brains and kidneys in the form of heart attacks, strokes, and kidney failure. … Read the rest “Heart Health-Tracking Running Wolf”
“Sample” Evidence of Health Naiveté
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- The markers for Henry Sample (age 5) and his sister Lottie Sample (51 weeks old) still legible after 145 years are in Lot 30, Block C of Pioneer and Soldiers Cemetery.
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- Rev. Robert F. Sample famous for a sermon called “The Curtained Throne” about President Lincoln served as Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis for 19 years.
By Sue Hunter Weir
Side by Side Marble Markers
They are two of the oldest markers in the cemetery””identical marble markers, side by side, right next to the cemetery”'s only road. They mark the graves of Henry B. Sample and his sister, Lottie Sample.
Rev. Robert Sample”'s Lincoln inspired “The Curtained Throne” Homily
Their father, Robert F. Sample, was one of the early pastors at Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Minneapolis. Reverend Sample received a call from the Westminster congregation in February 1868. He was already well-known on the East Coast, most notably for a sermon that he gave in Bedford, Pennsylvania on April 23, 1865. The title of the sermon was “The Curtained Throne;” it was so popular that he was asked to repeat it the following Sunday and to give his permission for it to be printed and distributed–the 1860s”' equivalent of “going viral.”… Read the rest ““Sample” Evidence of Health Naiveté”
Mississippi River Water Walk 2013
Each Step is a Prayer for the Water
Departs March 1
The Water Walk is an action being taken by Sharon Day, Ojibwe elder, peace activist and Executive Director of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force.
Starting on March 1st Sharon and her sister Doreen will be walking the entire length of the Mississippi, from the headwaters in Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico. The walk is a prayer for the health of the water.
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