News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Monday December 29th 2025
LOOK! Just Half of the BACKYARD INITIATIVE Activities in March!!!
A partial sampling of the activities hosted by the leaders and members of the BYI Community Health Action Teams (CHATs). Watch for the activities from the other CHATs to be featured on the BYI Back Page in the May issue! There is so much happening, there was not room to list all of the exciting happenings!
Anchor Families
MIDTOWN EXCHANGE
1. Roundtable Connection: Helping elders and mothers to come together to talk (Every Tuesday)
2. Learn How to Learn: understanding how to learn and why for many of us it”'s hard to learn. (Once a week)
3. Homework Help: Helping kids and adults with their homework. (Every Wednesday)
4. Parenting for Success; How to parent in a new country and at same time to keep what we come with ”“ our culture and language. (Every Saturday)
Related Images:
Groundswell of outrage repeated!
Breaking Ground on East Franklin east of the Mpls. American Indian Center and south of Anishinabe Wakiagun to build Anishinabe Bii Gii Wii a 32 unit,3-story, multifamily affordable housing facility.
Breaking Ground has people dancing on East Lake St. & Hiawatha for Hennepin Cty Service Center/Office 5 stories along Lake S. + retail spaces and Midtown Farmer”'s Market east of here along the Light Rail.
BY HARVEY WINJE
A Groundswell of disappointment, anger and resentment toward City of Mpls. politicians and bureaucrats by East Phillips residents that opposed the City”'s purchasing the Roof Depot site to use as the Water Dept. Yard has happened. The City buys Roof Depot site!
An honest, straightforward process could have been respected but the lack of transparency and excess of surreptitious manuvering by the City threatens future relationships.
The oldest residents of South Minneapolis can recall similar opposition by thousands of people to the building of an incinerator next to Pioneer and Soldiers Cemetery in the late 1930”'s.… Read the rest “Groundswell of outrage repeated!”
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