News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Sunday December 14th 2025
Come Celebrate Re-Opening of Phillips Community Center May 12!
By Shirley Heyer, MPNIA rep to the Phillips Community Parks Initiative and PCC meetings
After saving the PCC from demolition or sale to private ownership, residents of the surrounding neighborhoods can sigh with relief! Their four-year effort saved the building with its double gym and swimming pool. Their efforts also resulted in a new partnership between the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) and a half dozen neighborhood organizations which are jointly operating and programming the building.
Tours of building: staff of the MPRB, Minneapolis Swims, Running Wolf Fitness Center, Waite House, A Partnership of Diabetics, Ventura Village and the Guri Nabad Center before and after lunch
Recognition ceremony
Free lunch at noon
Four hours of free music ”“ come sit on the grass (or bring a lawn chair) on the west side of the park and watch local performers entertain you on the MPRB semi-truck stage.
Participate in the Midtown Greenway Coalition”'s bike rodeo on 13th Ave. S.
Check out numerous neighborhood exhibit tables.
Come join the Grand Re-opening Festivities Saturday, May 12, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The main entrance is at E. 24th St. and 12th Ave. S. Bike, walk, use your wheelchair! E. 24th St. from 11th to 13th avenues and the 2300 block of 13th Ave.… Read the rest “Come Celebrate Re-Opening of Phillips Community Center May 12!”
War cannot be created
“War” cannot not be created like a basketball game”¦meaning you can create a basketball game by doing basketball things, but you cannot create “war”, which is the freedom to kill and destroy, by doing warlike things. You cannot get “war” from doing “war”, “war” cannot create itself.
The problem is, we believe “war” can be started like a basketball game, that once you have soldiers, bombers, battleships, things being blown up, you”'ve got yourself a “war”. The “war” starters in 2003 knew this-that even though they did not have any real reasons to attack Iraq, that once they got the visual appearance of a “war” going-they were good, they had themselves a “war”, they had themselves a “war zone” they had themselves the freedom to kill and destroy within the “war zone”, but all they had was a fight that they picked.
With our belief that “war” can be accessed through nothing more than violence, defenseless countries like Iraq with “shock and awe”, the country of Iraq was pulled “into war” with the United States and Britain. Just how does attacking someone get them “in war” with you and then have the freedom to kill them? Now this same process is going to be played out with Iran. … Read the rest “War cannot be created”
Keep citizen journalism alive!
Mind And Body Unite
By Peter Molenaar
After thirty-three years of hard labor in the neighborhood iron foundry, one would expect this writer to have resolved the question surrounding the apparent duality between mind and body. He certainly has had ample time to think about it with his nose before the grinding wheel.
It is a vexing problem. If after all our efforts, the duality remains un-refuted, a concession must be made to agnosticism. Which is to say: The door is then left open to the possibility of a transcendent spirit worthy of being called God.
In my student days, there was a course which examined the structure of the brain and the correlation of its sectors to various functions. However, I found no correlation between brain morphology and, for example, the infinite complexity of my visual field on a lovely spring day. The professor inquired as to the nature of the disappointment. “I remain mystified!” was the response.
The plot thickens”¦
As fate would have it, I have made several appointments with South Point Community Acupuncture. The human pin cushion reclined. His contemplations resumed.
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