Dr. Arne Anderson”'s “Mission”: SERVE!

 By Harvey Winje

Joining two men with insatiable appetites for knowledge and with variant but unique connections to Phillips Community for a cordial visit over coffee and banana bread was an honor and an education.

Arnold “Arne” Anderson, was the founder, first Medical Director and CEO of Children”'s Hospital from 1967, before it opened in 1973 and until 1987 and the founder of the Teenage Medical Center.   The Dr. Arnold S. Anderson and Rusk P. Anderson Education Center at Children”'s-Mpls is named for him and his wife.

Arne Anderson, 96, is a voracious reader so we had loaned a copy of “Wendell Phillips Liberty”'s Hero” by Professor James B. Stewart to Arne.  He appreciated learning about Wendell and was surprised to learn Phillips”' own goals and hard work were similar to that for which he had worked all his life.

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Donna Neste retires as Mount Olive Neighborhood Ministries Coordinator

Donna Neste is retiring from her many years of service as the Coordinator of Neighborhood Ministries at Mount Olive Church 31st and Chicago Av. Donna has served Mount Olive and the neighborhood admirably for many decades.

Mount Olive is honoring and celebrating Donna”'s ministry on Sunday March 16th at the closing of the 10:45 AM Worship Service. Friends and neighbors are welcome.

The Alley Newspaper also thanks Donna for years of support of the paper with writing and most especially with coordinating delivery of the paper to many blocks each issue neighborhood youth.

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Midtown Phillips Honors Therese Rau

By Jana Metge

Neighbors and Midtown Phillips Improvement Association paid tribute at its recent Annual Meeting to Therese Rau for over 16 years of extensive crime prevention work serving in HN. Cty. Drug Court, Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Probation, the city”'s first Safety Center on Franklin Ave., as an instrumental partner in the Phillips Weed & Seed Federal crime reduction Initiative (2003-2008)— implementing a ”˜Safety at School Bus Stops”' Initiative, and at the Midtown Safety Center since 2005.

Midtown Phillips Neighborhood extended this heartfelt Thank You to Therese Rau for dedicated, invaluable service and wished her continued good fortune in a new assignment.

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