News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Tuesday December 16th 2025
17th Annual Phillips Clean Sweep another success!
By JANA METGE
Even the cold, rain, and snow did not stop our Annual Phillips Clean Sweep from going on! Saturday, October 12th Phillips residents came out to clean up their neighborhood. Bethlehem Baptist brought over a tent to protect the free T-Shirts for each participant. Beth Hart and her grandson, Joe Golish and John Richard volunteered to serve breakfast donated by Allina. A little snow and cold didn”™t stop them!
Residents and other volunteers cleaned up areas where trash was dumped and cleaned out basements and garages of broken or unneeded household construction items, tires, metal, appliances, furniture, and mattresses. This one time a year event allows residents to put out everything at no charge! The four Phillips Community neighborhoods: Ventura Village across the top from 35W to Hiawatha & north of 24th St. to E-94), Phillips West (35-W to Chicago Av. 24th St. to Lake Street), Midtown Phillips (Chicago Av. to Bloomington Av. 24th St. to Lake St.), and East Phillips (Bloomington Av. to Hiawatha & 24th St. to Lake St.) raise funds to hire city garbage trucks and provide this service for free.… Read the rest “17th Annual Phillips Clean Sweep another success!”
Jana Metge””Phillips”™ Good Neighbor and Advocate ”“ Extraordinary day for an extraordinary quilt, for an extraordinary neighbor
BY CLEAN SWEEP COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Jana Metge, the Clean Sweep Event and Community Organizer Extraordinaire, was honored with a very symbolic gift of a quilt at the Stewart Park Clean Sweep Luncheon (held inside this year due to the early wintery chill). It couldn”™t have been more appropriate to the weather and acknowledgement of Jana”™s colorfulness, her connection with so many organizations, and the warmth she brings to every event, generally, and greeting of people individually.
Beth Hart is another good neighbor great at making connections. She “connected” a recent experience of having a family quilt made to the idea of it being a way to acknowledge the incredible work Jana has done for decades for not only the Clean Sweep event but in constant advocacy with and for the Phillips Community.
Besides providing warmth for the day and offering important symbolism with the 16 T-shirts naming many Phillips organizations with whom Jana keeps connected, Project Repat, the business who assembled the T-shirts,
Beth Hart collected through the years, is on a mission befitting Clean Sweep Day itself. Project Repat states: “ The average American trashes 65 pounds of clothing per year. We”™re keeping T-shirts out of landfills and upcycling them into something new!”… Read the rest “Jana Metge””Phillips”™ Good Neighbor and Advocate ”“ Extraordinary day for an extraordinary quilt, for an extraordinary neighbor”
Peace House Community Journal – The Need for Sleep
By MARTI MALTBY
When asked to name a person”™s most basic needs, most people will reliably name food, shelter and clothing. A quick Google search adds air, safety, warmth, health and sex. Sometimes one or two other ideas like companionship get tossed out, and Wikipedia adds sanitation, education, healthcare and internet to the list. (I suppose if you”™re Wikipedia, you have to say the internet is a necessity.)
Amazingly, sleep seems to escape everyone”™s notice as a basic need.
However, almost everyone recognizes the necessity of sleep. Numerous clinical studies have shown the negative effects from lack of sleep on health, cognition, student test scores and any number of other measures. Even if a person hasn”™t heard about the studies, they know what insomnia or pulling an all-nighter in college is like. From my own experience working graveyard shifts, inadequate sleep impairs judgment, reduces the pleasure of normally enjoyable experiences, and promotes unhealthy habits””like eating junk food and more.
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