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By CRYSTAL WINDSCHITL
Thursday, September 6th, 6-7 pm
Phillips West Monthly Community Meeting!
Join your neighbors and other Community Partners for updates from Local City Government & Minneapolis Police. Meeting will take place at the Center for Changing Lives Building in the Centrum Room (2400 Park Avenue). Free parking is available in the rear of building off of Oakland Avenue. Free Jakeeno”'s Pizza Dinner will be provided! If you would like more information or would like to get involved in the neighborhood please contact Crystal at 612-879-5383 or email her at pwno2005@yahoo.com
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Metro Transit ”“ Bus driver shortage causes service cuts
By JOHN CHARLES WILSON
The 18 August 2018 schedule change at Metro Transit is more complicated than usual because there was an emergency 1% service cut made on 31 July. Unfortunately, service cuts are nothing new to public transit. However, this last one was made for an unprecedented reason: a shortage of bus drivers. Usually, service cuts happen due to lack of funding, but now Metro Transit has been so short of drivers that several scheduled bus trips a day, usually at rush hour, just simply didn”'t run because there was no driver!
A formal service cut was declared, in order to create a schedule where every expected bus would show up as it should. With the August schedule change, some of the deleted trips have been restored; this was apparently made possible by cancelling some underused school trips, especially in the mornings.
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Louis Borck, aspired for 100 years, contentment, no worries
Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery
BY SUE HUNTER WEIR
160th in a Series
Louis Borck wanted only two things in life””he wanted to be left alone and he wanted to live to be 100 years old. The first, he believed, would help him reach the second. It didn”'t quite work out that way.
On February 27, 1912, Borck found himself in court trying to prove that he did not need a court-appointed guardian. He was born in Germany in 1833 so he was about 79 years old when neighbors asked officials in the welfare department to help him. That”'s when he told the judge that his only ambition was to live to see his 100th birthday. After that birthday, he said, “I do not care what they do with me.” And it was in the courtroom that he laid out his rules for a long life:
“That you live by yourself.
Eat only once or twice a day.
Always be contented.
Never worry.”
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