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Resilient responses amidst turmoil

• “Alley oops” is when a basketball player throws the ball near the basket and another player stuffs it through the net for a score.  Alley Communications gives chances for others to “score” by telling their stories and opinions.
• American Indian Community Development Corporation and Indian Health Board bought the Blue Nile Restaurant; now what?
• Changing Climate and the Accord agreed by 195 nations in Paris is a monumental development of 2015 ready for action in 2016.
• Buildings between 19th and 21st Avenues on Lake Street and the Brown Institute/Community Ed Bldg. at Hiawatha and Lake will be razed for new developments.  Action is still happening to save the history of one of those structures that has been a church, a lodge hall, and a factory for Burma-Shave and its highway ad signage.
• Expansion of bread production and employment at Franklin Street Bakery results in closing of retail bake goods shop.
• Finalizing of scope, plans, and finances of the renovation and reopening of the Phillips Pool into the Phillips Aquatic Center begins a new era in the five-decade saga of this 1972 addition to Wendell Phillips Junior High School, demolished in 1984.
• Gardening for Health by individuals, block cubs, and organizations to localize healthy food supply and encourage that availability to everyone.