Why walk?

By the Phillips Wellness 50+ Team

Walking in one of the easiest ways to increase physical activity and improve your health. Almost anyone can walk, it can be done anywhere and it doesn”'t cost a cent.

• Walking provides all sorts of benefits, including:
• Lowering blood pressure
• Reducing weight
• Preventing onset of diabetes
• Improving memory
• Here are tips to help you stay safe on your walks:
• Cross streets at crosswalks. Better yet, cross at corners with traffic signals.
• Wear bright color clothing to be sure that you can be seen. Never assume a driver sees you crossing the street. Try to make eye contact with drivers as they approach.
• Walk on sidewalks whenever possible. Keep an eye out for uneven surfaces that can be hazards for falling.
• Wear good quality shoes. Look for shoes that have a thick sole, a wide base, closed back and good arch support.
• Carry your ID and emergency contact information.

Phillips Wellness 50+ invites you to join us for a weekly group walk. Meet us in the lobbies of Ebenezer Park Apartments and Ebenezer Tower every Tuesday night at 6:00 P.M.

Phillips Wellness 50+ is an initiative to increase health and well-being, by and for people in the Phillips neighborhood.… Read the rest “Why walk?”

Will Another Important Building Be Demolished by Children”'s MN?

BY HARVEY WINJE

“In 1916, the cornerstone was laid for the Messiah Lutheran Church at the intersection of East 25^th Street and Columbus Avenue in South Minneapolis. It was designed by Harry Wild Jones, a leading Minneapolis architect.

“Today, the two-story red brick Gothic Revival structure rests comfortably within this mildly compact urban environment and is still serving its original religious purpose though no longer for a Lutheran congregation which began In service to a Northern European immigrant community. Now the building hosts Mennonite and Latino immigrant congregations.” (see Harry Wild Jones, Architect Messiah Lutheran Church: Deserving Historic Preservation” by Bob Roscoe The Alley Newspaper, April 2017, pg. 6)

If Children”'s Hospitals MN fulfills their plans, that Sanctuary will soon not be there. The block of Phillips Community bordered by Chicago and Columbus Avenues and East 25^th and 26^th Streets was devastated a decade ago by the surreptitious purchase and land clearing by Children”'s MN.  Twenty-six homes, a church, and an automobile service station were eliminated in order to build a 700 car parking ramp and a building for clinics.

This demolition was in direct violation of the signed 14 block Land-Use Agreement between the Phillips Community and Allina Health, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Phillips Eye Institute, Children”'s MN and their successors.… Read the rest “Will Another Important Building Be Demolished by Children”'s MN?”

Hospital land grab angers Phillips residents

By Julie Miller;* The Alley Newspaper  May 25, 2006

If it would wreck your whole day to come home from work and discover your house was gone, then you need to read this story, because it could happen to you! This is real. It is not a test. It is not science fiction and you have not just entered the Twilight Zone. You have entered the Lifesciences Corridor, another dimension where homes are dispensable, parking ramps are the future, and hospitals can go from “good neighbor” to “perpetrator” in the blink of an eye.

Don”'t take my word for it folks, take a walk or drive around the 2500 block of Chicago Ave. and you will see what the future has in store for you. The once stately and solid Victorian houses are gone now””nothing but a memory and a flat place in the dirt. This is the awful truth. It is not a cruel hoax, a bad joke or a dream from which you can awaken to find a world that still makes sense. This ain”'t no disco, fellow citizens, and we”'re definitely not in Kansas anymore. Who needs the excitement of reality TV when we all live in an endangered environment?… Read the rest “Hospital land grab angers Phillips residents”