Phillips What? Where? Contest!
Guess What and Where the bottom right photo is and get a chance to be in a drawing for $10. Gift Certificate to Welna Hardware.
Guess What and Where the bottom right photo is and get a chance to be in a drawing for $10. Gift Certificate to Welna Hardware. Email your answer.
Peter Kirschmann, Eve MacLeish, Brenda Morrow, Jean Morrow, and Pamela Rivera knew that the December Phillips What Where photo was at the corner of 26th Street and Hiawath Avenue.
No one told us what it is exactly nor who did it nor that we featured the beginning of this sculpture on the front page of The Alley, July 2010.
But Eve came the closest with the following narrative so she wins this month”'s gift certificate to Welna Hardware. “The image of the plow-truck sculpture is part of the decorative wall metal sculptures along Hiawatha Avenue at 26th St, between 26th and 28th.
The first part of the decoration, the metal mesh, aged nicely into rust before the vehicle sculptures went up. I enjoy this every morning on my way to work!”
So”¦.FYI & I For Your Information and Inspiration
Brad Kaspari, Owner, Kaspari Design Services
Brad Kaspari was born in rural North Dakota and grew up on Northern Minnesota”'s Iron Range.… Read the rest “Phillips What? Where? Contest!”
Phillips Community Center at 2323 11th Ave building Update
by Robert Albee
The Phillips Community Parks Initiative members met on Tuesday, December 14th with MPRB President John Erwin, Commissioner Scott Vreeland, Jayne Miller, the new MPRB Superintendent and with Al Bangoura, the CSA #6 Director that serves the Phillips Community. This meeting gave the PCPI members an opportunity to determine what the MPRB Commissioners were considering and review any concerns that were raised during earlier individual visits with each MPRB commissioner.. Feedback from the meeting was very positive, indicating that there would be some parameters established by the Park Board that once addressed could lead to a signing of leases for space within the Phillips Community Center.
The next day, on Wednesday, December 15th, the MPRB Planning Committee sponsored a presentation by PCPI members to formally outline and present the overall plan and request for space in the Phillips Community Center facility. This presentation was designed to provide the basic information to any interested media producer/writer and an opportunity to present the plan via cable television on Channel 79. PCPI”'s presentation was met with unanimous praise and encouragement. The next and final formal step in the process will be to appear before the entire Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board on Wednesday, January 5, 2011.… Read the rest “Phillips Community Center at 2323 11th Ave building Update”
Health providers and community development organizations invited to work with Back Yard community
By Janice Barbee, Cultural Wellness Center
Looking back over the activities and accomplishments of 2010, the partners of the Backyard Initiative have a lot to celebrate. The residents of the Backyard (Phillips, Powderhorn Park, Central, and Corcoran) and Allina Hospitals and Clinics are creating a new kind of partnership to improve the health of the community.
On December 10, the Cultural Wellness Center and Allina hosted a breakfast for CHAT members and other guests to learn about the Backyard Initiative and meet Dr. David Kindig, Emeritus Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine. Dr. Kendig shared Hennepin County”'s scores from the County Health Rankings which ranks the overall health of every county in the U.S. (available on www.countyhealthrankings.org). The report, released by the University of Wisconsin”'s Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is the first of its kind to measure the state of health of a county based on health measures and other key factors that affect health, such as smoking, obesity, binge drinking, access to primary care providers, rates of high school graduation, rates of violent crime, air pollution levels, liquor store density, unemployment rates and number of children living in poverty.… Read the rest “Health providers and community development organizations invited to work with Back Yard community”
