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Monday December 22nd 2025
Random alley News
By LINDSEY FENNER
No Open Streets this year on Franklin and East Lake: The tentatively scheduled Open Streets along Franklin Avenue and East Lake Street have been cancelled again this year because of the pandemic. Open Streets is a partnership between Our Streets Minneapolis and the City of Minneapolis that temporarily closes major streets to car traffic, and opens them up for biking, walking, and rolling.
Holy Rosary/Santo Rosario Church will remain open, possible merger with the Church of St. Stephens: The future of Holy Rosary Catholic Church at 2424 18th Avenue South had been in question when the founding Dominican Order left in 2020. Declining donations, plus an ageing historic building in need of maintenance means a parish merger with the Church of St. Stephens is likely for ongoing financial stability. The parish was fou nded in 1878, with the current church building built in 1888.Â
Minneapolis Deciding How to Spend Federal recovery funding: The City of Minneapolis has been allocated $271 million from the American Rescue Plan (ARP), broken up into two phases. In early June, Mayor Jacob Frey submitted a proposal for spending the first phase of $89 million. The mayor”™s proposal included: $28 million for housing and homelessness, $37 million economic rebuilding, $12 million public safety, $5 million climate and public health, $7 million City Capacity and Performance.… Read the rest “Random alley News”
Thanks to Vaccines, the Golden Age for Children’s Health is Now
Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery
188th in a series
By SUE HUNTER WEIR
Photo credit: Aubele Family
The Washington Post recently ran the following headline: “Coronavirus infections dropping where people are vaccinated and rising where they are not.” The story was news only because it specifically referred to the novel coronavirus. We have known for a long time that the numbers of illnesses and deaths decrease when people, especially children, are vaccinated. There are several diseases that were once among the leading killers of young children, which have been either nearly or entirely eradicated in the United States. Since the arrival of vaccines, we no longer have to worry about measles, mumps, rubella, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, or smallpox. We have much to be thankful for, but the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued some alarming warnings about the current state of those diseases.
According to The Washington Post, in 2019, the number of people who died from measles was at a 23-year-high, having increased 50 percent in only three years.… Read the rest “Thanks to Vaccines, the Golden Age for Children’s Health is Now”
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