Block Club Meeting Idea – Walk and Talk
By KALI PLIEGO
Crime Prevention Specialists around the city are seeing a new trend in block club meetings. Block club members are preferring to take the meeting on the move, literally. Going on a walk together is a great way to provide a positive presence on your streets and alleys, in addition to moving your bodies and digging in to block issues through conversation. Level up by inviting your Crime Prevention Specialist to come along! They can lead a discussion on CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design), and help you come up with simple ways to apply the concepts to yards, garages, porches, even problem areas that have been difficult to solve! Crime Prevention Specialists can also educate your block club on a wide array of prevention tips, from personal safety to home and business security, theft prevention and more. To find your Crime Prevention Specialist, visit the city webpage. All services are free. https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/departments/police/cps/
Kali Pliego is a Crime Prevention Specialist serving the Phillips Community within the Minneapolis Police Department 3rd Precinct.
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Hamilton and Lee
from the series Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery, No. 221
By SUE HUNTER WEIR
In August 1905, within a matter of days, Minneapolis’s African-American community lost two of its best-known and well-respected members: Emanuel Hamilton and Clenis Washington Lee.
Emanuel Hamilton, affectionately known as “Ham”, died on August 12, 1905. Three days earlier, he became ill at work and rushed to the City Hospital. The city was in the middle of a heat wave and it was initially thought that he was suffering from heat exhaustion, but doctors later determined that he had suffered a stroke. He remained hospitalized, semi-conscious and unable to speak, until he died.
Hamilton was born in South Carolina in 1851, and although there is no record of it, he was most likely enslaved when he was a child. When Hamilton arrived in Minneapolis in 1870, there were only 13,000 people living in the city.… Read the rest “Hamilton and Lee”
