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Friday March 14th 2025
The Alley Newspaper is Bound for The Future!
Bound for the Future had two meanings for The Alley Newspaper in 2010 and now into 2011.
First, it means that the first 30 years of The Alley Newspaper”'s issues are now reprinted on good quality book paper instead of lower quality newsprint paper, and the over 4,000 pages are bound into two sets of 13, hardcover volumes. One set is available to the public at the Downtown Central Library on Hennepin Avenue and the other is available at the Franklin Library on Franklin Avenue. This making of The Alley”'s into hardcover volumes was initiated and paid for by the Hennepin County Library after an Alley volunteer spent hundreds of hours assembling a complete set of those many issues.
The next tasks are:
1. Minnesota Historical Society to the complete 35 years of issues onto microfilm.
2. Digitizing of the 35 years of issue.
3. Produce an index for use with all of the reproductions.
Secondly, “Bound for the Future” means that The Alley has survived for 35 years and is setting a course to continue publishing in 2011 this community-owned and governed newspaper. We hope it is also “bound for the future” while many small and large newspaper are ceasing production.… Read the rest “The Alley Newspaper is Bound for The Future!”
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”
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