News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Monday April 29th 2024
the alley is looking for new board members to help steer the paper and join our community!
Board Member Wanted
The alley is happy to announce that its Editorial Leadership Committee is growing and producing new and interesting articles of interest to our readers while supporting our current long time group of volunteer writers . This is due in large part to new community voices and volunteers..
We are, however, in need of new volunteers to grow the Board of Directors. The Board manages the business aspect of Alley Communications. This includes contracting for and overseeing the services we need such as bookkeeping and business management as well as ensuring our financial stability with new sources of stable income. We have made great strides the last few years but now need your help to build our Board capacity to allow us to continue to build on our work.
Like reading our long running Tales from Pioneer and Soldiers Cemetery, Raise Your Voice, The Movie Corner or the Spirit of Phillips cartoon each month? Or maybe it”™s some of our newer offerings like our Transit column, our Covid-19 coverage from a contact tracer, or the Random alley News with short news summaries or following your neighborhood organization”™s news and events. Whatever your alley jam, come join the Board and help be a part of a community driven, volunteer run paper highlighting the often overlooked voices of the Phillips neighborhood.… Read the rest “the alley is looking for new board members to help steer the paper and join our community!”
Edible Boulevards
By MICHELLE SHAW
Join us for our Edible Boulevards cooking classes! Our class will help you utilize the harvest from your own garden to create simple, delicious summer and autumn recipes. We were delighted to have Appetite for Change teach our first two classes, and we”™re excited to welcome Kelly Shay, founder of Harmonious World, to lead our September and October classes. You”™ll learn about the nutritional value of the produce in each recipe, and when the class is over, you will have made that evening”™s meal for yourself and your family. Invite your partner, a friend, or your kids to the Zoom class, and cook the meal together! Here”™s what we have in store for you:
- Thursday, September 30 with Kelly Shay: Vegetable Basil Stir-fry w/ Quinoa and a Side Salad — 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
- Thursday, October 28 with Kelly Shay: Cozy Autumn Lentil Stew — 5:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m.
Register in advance:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMscOCprz8vGtdw0iHhiRISE1BfEDky87Sv
Edible Boulevards is an initiative focused on making fresh produce accessible in every Minneapolis neighborhood, starting with Green Zone neighborhoods, which have suffered environmental injustice and food apartheid policies for decades. Our garden sites get tested for lead, because children in Green Zone neighborhoods typically experience higher blood lead levels.… Read the rest “Edible Boulevards”
Are You Letting Expenses Rise to Meet Income?
By MARY ELLEN KALUZA
I once heard the phrase: Expenses rise to meet income. Not me!, I thought. But, to be honest, even a pathologically frugal person like me lets expenses rise with income.
Case in point: For most of my life (we”™re talking quite a few decades) I watched broadcast television and library videos on hand-me-down TVs. Cable was not in the budget as a single parent.
After my nest emptied and I had only myself to support, I envied friends and the great stuff they were watching on internet streaming sites. So, I started to pay for streaming. But, because my TV was so old and dated, I had to move off the couch in the living room to a hard chair in front of the computer screen to watch streaming video. I was okay with that, but my cat was not. We had a lot of disagreements about what was comfortable and what wasn”™t.
So I finally paid money for a new TV for the first time in my life. (Don”™t worry – I didn”™t completely go off the rails; it is a modest TV). We were back on the couch for TV time, and harmony was restored to the household.… Read the rest “Are You Letting Expenses Rise to Meet Income?”
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