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Thursday December 25th 2025
“What goes up must come down.” ”¦Isaac Newton: BARRICADES UP, BARRICADES DOWN
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- BARRICADES UP: Barricades were set up across East Franklin Avenue on each side of the bridge over Highway 35W mid-September 2017 to safely allow the demolition of that Franklin Avenue Bridge for dramatic changes to Highway 35W below and a new Franklin Avenue Bridge. See details on Ventura Village News on Page 5 of this issue of The Alley Newspaper. Photo credit: Harvey Winje
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- BARRICADES DOWN: Barricades will be taken down on East 25th St. east of the Super America convenience store driveway placed there a decade ago as means of interrupting illicit drug and human trafficking at the intersection. The barricades will now be removed and one block made a One-Way street and a Traffic Circle technique employed at 17th Av to affect control. Photo credit: Harvey Winje
To Barricade or not to Barricade
We now have the answer
BY CAROL PASS
In spite of overwhelming Neighborhood, Police and City support for removing the Barricades between Bloomington Ave. and 16th Ave. S. on E 25th St.,… Read the rest ““What goes up must come down.” ”¦Isaac Newton: BARRICADES UP, BARRICADES DOWN”
2015 Paris Climate Accord: Carbon Neutrality by 2050: Local congregation signs on as U.S. signs off!
Mount Olive Lutheran Church at 31st and Chicago that is broadly known for its excellence in congregational life, worship spanning Lutheran tradition and innovation, liturgical
richness, musical superiority by voice, instrument and specially organ masters,
outstanding youth work; now bursts forth in environmental concern and commitment
fulfilling the mission of their faith. Photo credit: Mt. Olive website
BY FRANCES STEVENSON
Mount Olive Lutheran Church has been taking big steps towards carbon neutrality this fall installing a geothermal heating and cooling system under their parking lot on the corner of Chicago Avenue and E 31st street.
The church has been working towards the Paris Agreement goal of carbon neutrality by 2050 despite the United States decision to pull out of the agreement.
The installation of the geothermal system is planned to be finished by the end of October and the lot where the geothermal wells, 48 wells in total, are dug will be paved over as a parking lot as it was before the installation. The goal is to heat both buildings part of Mount Olive Lutheran church, the chapel building and administrative building, without changing either building all too much.
“We really wanted to keep the building the way it was,” Property Director Arthur Halbardier said.… Read the rest “2015 Paris Climate Accord: Carbon Neutrality by 2050: Local congregation signs on as U.S. signs off!”
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