Phillips Community Center Update “No, I”'ll take the stairs!” ”¦ Carl Peterson
by Robert Albee, Ventura Village
It”'s finally done! Last week we sent to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for most of the organizations who want to work together with the Park Board in the reopening and ongoing operations of the Phillips Community Center. It”'s located at 11th Avenue and 24th Street in Ventura Village of the Phillips Community. In addition to prospective tenants, others who wish to have an ongoing presence in the building also have signed the agreement.
Those seeking to be tenants and are signatories to this MOU are the Waite House/Pillsbury United Communities, Freeport West, Native American Community Clinic, Running Wolf Fitness Center, A Partnership Of Diabetics (A-POD), Ventura Village (Neighborhood), Guri Nabad, a No Child Left Behind After-School Program and Minneapolis Swims. Representatives from the other three Phillips Communities are also signatories to the MOU and include East Phillips Improvement Coalition, Midtown Phillips Neighborhood Association and Phillips West Neighborhood Organization. Also participating as “non-tenants”, but strongly interested parties include Sergio Martinez from Messiah Lutheran Church, Hope Academy, Phillips Neighborhood Free Clinic and Access Chiropractic Clinic.
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Lifeway mural “Our Power comes from Our People”, on the south wall of Nawayee Center School (2421 Bloomington Avenue), was dedicated October 22, 2010. Twenty-two students muralists with elder artists Francis Yellow and Marilyn Lindstrom worked together four seasons (fall 08, fall 09, spring 09 and fall 10) to design and paint the 18”' X 18”' mural. The young people made the mural through Lakota Lifeway: starting by creating a collective dream for the mural- to the final gifting of the mural to their community.
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By Janice Barbee, Cultural Wellness Center
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