St. Anthony Park, Falcon Heights, Lauderdale & Northwest Como Park Volume 32, Number 5, November, 2005

Park BugleWhat is the future of retail in St. Anthony Park? That questionengaged about 75 people whoattended a September 26 publicmeeting sponsored by the St. Anthony Park CommunityFoundation.

The meeting included apanel of four people with interestand experience in businessdevelopment: Terri Fleming,senior vice president for lendingat Park Midway Bank; MikeTemali, founder and executivedirector of the NeighborhoodDevelopment Center in St. Paul;Steve Wellington, president ofWellington Management, Inc., aproperty development andmanagement company based inSt. Paul; and Hans Weyandt, co-owner of Micawber’s Bookstore.

The museum cometh—but notjust yet.

Plans continue apace for therelocation of the Bell Museumfrom the University ofMinnesota’s Minneapolis campusto the St. Paul campus—or theFalcon Heights campus, as SueGehrz, Falcon Heights mayor,puts it.

Gehrz presided over aSeptember 21 public meeting atFalcon Heights City Hall, whereabout 70 people gathered to hearan update on the Bell’s move.According to Scott Lanyon, themuseum’s director, the newbuilding won’t start going upuntil at least 2008. That’s whenthe project will officially appearon the U of M’s newconstruction projects list, andwhen the university will make abonding request to the state.

Meantime, though, manyplans have been made, and theSeptember 21 meeting featuredcomments by representatives ofthe architectural and design teamregarding the new site on thesouthwest corner of Clevelandand Larpenteur Avenues.

When serious discussionsabout relocating the BellMuseum began five years ago,the university considered fourpossible sites. Those werenarrowed to two locations on theSt. Paul campus, and eventuallythe Cleveland-Larpenteur sitewas selected. It encompasses 12acres, 5.3 of which wouldaccommodate the museumbuilding and parking lot. The

remaining land would constitutean outdoor exhibit/classroomfeaturing Minnesota’s four majorbiospheres.

Lanyon said the newbuilding will be much moreflexible than the current one.“The old style of museumbuilding was to come up withexhibits first, then create abuilding around those exhibits.That’s what we have now.”

The problem with thatapproach, Lanyon continued, isthat a museum is stuck with itsoriginal exhibits indefinitely.This time around, he said, thebuilding will come first, and itwill be designed to accommodatechanging exhibits.

Lanyon stressed theimportance of the larger site inthe museum’s vision. “We seevisitors spending 60 percent oftheir time inside and 40 percentoutside,” he said.

Some of the additionalacreage is currently occupied byrecreational soccer fields, and it’snot yet clear whether that landwill be immediately available tothe Bell once they’re ready tobreak ground. However,planning continues to be basedon using the entire site, Lanyonsaid.

He predicted that the newlocation, which is directly acrossLarpenteur from the GibbsMuseum, will be especiallyconvenient for school groups,which may choose to combinevisits to the two museums in onefield trip.

The discussion wasmoderated by Patricia Lopez, aSt. Anthony Park resident andreporter for the Star Tribune.

In opening statements,Weyandt praised the loyalty ofthe local customer base. He saidthat the biggest challenge forlocal business owners is figuringout how to increase foot traffic.

Fleming acknowledgedpotential conflicts between theinterests of businesses andresidents. She pointed to thestability of businesses in St. Anthony Park as anadvantage.

Wellington said that newcondominium and townhousebuyers in the area consistently

“Seed of Knowledge” was recently installed on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus. The 22-footsculpture, by San Francisco artist Seyed Alavi, is located at 1538 Gortner Avenue in front of the recentlyrenovated Plant Growth Facilities building, across the street from the Display and Trial Garden.

Forum addresses retailclimate in St. Anthony Parkby Dave Healy

Ask please for whom the Bell tollsby Dave Healy

Tuesday, November 8 is Election Day. In St. Paul, voters will

elect a mayor, either incumbent Randy Kelly or challenger Chris

Coleman. Both Falcon Heights and Lauderdale will hold elections

for City Council. For details about those races, see the articles

on pages 6 and 7. In St. Anthony Park, Precinct 1 residents who

previously voted at St. Anthony Park Elementary School should

now go to the Langford Recreation Center.

Forum to 16

Walkers to 16

What do over 750,000 Finnsknow that we don’t? The obviousanswer is the Finnish language,but the not-so-obvious answer isthat they know the benefits ofNordic walking because that’show many do it at least once aweek.

Nordic walking is regularwalking using cross country ski-like poles. Walking with the poleshelps with balance, gives a betterover-all workout, stretches outneck and shoulder muscles,increases heart rate 5-17 beats perminute over that of walking,burns more calories (up to 40percent), reduces stress on jointsand the back. . . . The list goeson and on.

Two women in St. AnthonyPark have discovered the benefitsof Nordic walking, almost by

accident. Joan Henke, aBloomington principal, and IreneOpsahl, a lawyer for the LegalAid Society of Minneapolis, havebeen friends for over 15 years buthave only been walking togetherfor three years. They walk for anhour four to five times a week,

rain or shine. These mothers of acombined six children see theirtime together as mental therapyas well as physical training.

A year ago Henke was

Nordic walkers ignore stares of the curious by Michelle Christianson

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C I T Y F I L E S

Falcon HeightsThe City Council adopted aresolution authorizing the city tolevy taxes in the amount of$865,008 for 2006. The councilnoted that while Falcon Heightsis not raising the city portion ofthe tax levy, residents may still seetax increases due to market valuechanges.

An election for City Council willbe held November 8. Threecandidates have filed for election:Laura Kuettel, Tom Lageson andBryan Olson.

LauderdaleA city election will be a part ofElection Day this year. Votinghours are from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.at City Hall on November 8.Mayor Jeffrey Dains isunopposed for re-election. Threecandidates are running for thetwo open seats on the CityCouncil: Clay Christensen, KarenDoherty and Denise Hawkinson.

St. Anthony ParkThe final public hearing of theSt. Anthony Park district planwill be on November 10 at 7 p.m. at the South St. AnthonyRecreation Center. There will betime for comments from thecommunity before a final vote bythe full council that evening. The

plan can be seen atwww.sapcc.org.

On October 13, the DistrictCouncil heard a presentationabout the “bioscience corridor”from two representatives of thecity of St. Paul: Tom Triplett,senior policy advisor to themayor, and John Maczko,director of transportation.

The bioscience corridor is aplan for development thatinvolves supporting anddeveloping the growth ofbioscience industry and business.

The corridor extends fromthe Westgate area, west ofHighway 280, along theintercampus busway to the St. Paul campus. The areasurrounds south St. AnthonyPark on three sides.

The presenters told thecouncil that the city hasrequested bonding funds fromthe state for several aspects of thisplan and has ranked the projectsecond in priority. Four elementsare of interest to District 12:

•$10 million to connectPierce Butler to 35E and extendit west.

•$200,000 to put a bus stopon the intercampus busway atUniversity EnterpriseLaboratories (Westgate).

•$2.5 million to extendWestgate Drive to the newGranary Parkway in Minneapolis.

•$1 million to studytransportation needs for the area.

Maczko compared theplanned Pierce Butler extensionto the new Phalen Boulevard,which includes four driving lanes,turn lanes and bike lanes.

He said the city has beenworking on this plan since April.He assured the council that thecity would continue to involvethe neighborhood in discussions.

The current version of St. Anthony Park’s revised districtplan opposes an extension ofPierce Butler through theneighborhood.

The council passed a resolutionin support of Catholic Charities’request for a conditional usepermit and parking variance(with a sunset provision for thevariance) to operate two facilitiesin south St. Anthony Park (atHersey and at Wycliff ).

The council will push for a“good neighbor agreement” withCatholic Charities.

The council decided to pursue atransportation study of the areabounded by I-94, Hwy. 36, 35Eand 35W to examine the impactof development plans.

–Susan Conner

7 pm, Thursday, November 10, 2005South St. Anthony Park Rec Center890 Cromwell AvenueSee the plan at www.spacc.org or call for information at 651-649-5992.

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St. Matthew’s Episcopal welcomes new rectorby Judy Woodward

Blair Pogue enjoys showingvisitors to her office a framedphoto. It’s a picture of anEpiscopal priest in full vestmentssmiling down on a baby at thebaptismal font. Hardly anunusual decoration for therector’s office at St. Matthew’sEpiscopal Church of St. AnthonyPark, one might say, except thepriest in the photo is Pogueherself and the child she is aboutto baptize is her infant son.

Pogue, the newly installedrector of St. Matthew’s, is thefirst woman to hold the post. It’sa fact that sheregards as hardlyworth noting.

Thirty yearsafter women werefirst ordained asEpiscopal priests,Pogue says thatthe concept ofwomen in theministry is a“nonissue.”

Pogue, whojust turned 40,thinks that anearlier generationof women in theministry, as inother professions,“were the oneswho brokethrough and had to be tougher.”

Over time, though,opposition has melted away. Theoriginal objections, she believes,were “not so much theological asexperiential.”

As younger women likeherself enter the ministry, saidPogue, congregations arebeginning to appreciate newmodels of religious life. “Myprevious parish was able to sharein my pregnancy and the birth ofmy son,” she notes withsatisfaction.

Pogue is also calm in theface of another controversycurrently stirring the depths ofthe national Episcopal Church.

“In this congregation,” shesays, “we have openly gaycouples. The Bishop ofMinnesota has made ordination anonissue. He’s said that if you’regay and you are called to thepriesthood, we concentrate onthe calling.”

More urgent, in Pogue’seyes, is the challenge offered bythe burgeoning fundamentalistmega-churches, whose suburbanedifices are often deliberatelyfashioned to resemble, in bothappearances and services, theshopping centers that surroundthem.

Although she notes drylythat her church will never be indanger of being confused with ashopping mall—“We’re boundby the canons of the faith, forone thing”—she does recognizethe appeal of the new churches.

Noting the effectiveness ofthe mega-churches’ practice oforganizing small interest groups

within the larger congregations,she says, “We (in the mainlinechurches) have a lot to learn interms of the power of smallgroups, fellowship and the powerof transforming lives. (Thefundamentalist churches) ask a lotof their members. They say that ifyou are a follower of Jesus Christ,your life is going to bedifferent—in the way youstructure finances, in the way youtreat other people. A lot of thethings they’re doing have beenaround since the early church.”

Following the mega-churchmodel, Pogue intends to inviteher congregation to take part insmall groups for scriptural studyand prayer. She hopes theirBiblical study will raisequestions—“What does thismean for me? For us?”—that willencourage discussions of ways to“incorporate classical Christiandoctrines of simplicity, silenceand discipleship.”

She also intends to exploreinnovations in spiritual life. “Iwant to do more withcontemplative prayer,” she says.For example, she plans tointroduce Taizé services, aworship form that incorporates “alot of mystery, silence, readings,but no sermon. It will beinteresting.”

Of all the traditionalProtestant churches, theEpiscopalians have always beenassociated in the minds of manywith a distinctly un-Christ-likeaura of money and social status.It’s what Pogue refers to as “theblue-blood thing,” even as sheasserts that the stereotype of thechurch as the spiritual home ofthe economically privileged nolonger really applies.

“The Episcopal Church ispart of the global AnglicanCommunion,” she says, “and the‘typical’ Anglican is now a young,African woman.”

Pogue describes St. Matthew’s congregation as“very diverse, very international,very artistically oriented with awelcoming, family feeling.” Shealso has confidence in the appealof the traditional liturgy of her

church. “People eventually want achurch with history,” is how sheputs it.

History is a subject on whichPogue has plenty of reason tospeak with authority. After a post-college stint as a Washingtonlegislative staffer, she earned aPh.D. in American history fromthe College of William and Mary.She says that she’d always felt acall to the ministry, but as ahistory graduate student sheassumed that her role was tobecome a “professor who was veryinvolved with her church.”

She learnedotherwise when shewas offered a tenure-track appointment ata liberal arts collegein Ohio. It was theideal first step in anacademic career,but—much to herparents’consternation—sheturned the job down.

“My parentsthought I’d lost mymind,” Pogue says,but “I realized that I’denjoyed my studies,but this wasn’t whatI’m supposed to do inlife.”

A short whilelater, she entered Yale DivinitySchool and met her husband,Dwight Zscheile, a fellow divinitystudent, who is currentlycompleting an advanced degree atLuther Seminary.

Ordained five years ago,Pogue previously served acongregation in the hunt countryof northern Virginia. It didn’tfeel much like the San Diegosuburbs where she grew up, butthat could be in part because,unlike a good fraction of herVirginia flock, Pogue admits, “Icouldn’t care less if I ever got on ahorse.”

Happily, the recreationalopportunities of Minnesota mayprove a bit more congenial. Herformer congregation has alreadyfixed her up with season tickets tothe Guthrie, and she’s lookingforward to spending a good partof her days off with two-year-oldLuke, visiting the Como Zoo andthe Children’s Museum.

Even as she confidentlyperforms the obligatory jugglingact of any professional womanwith a young child, ushering avisitor out of her office as shesimultaneously negotiates adaycare pickup by cell phone,Pogue is focused on thechallenges ahead.

“St. Matthew’s wants aspiritual leader and they want tobe challenged,” she says. “I takethose words very seriously. I planto engage the issues of the day onhunger, world debt and poverty.We should be acting on ourfaith.”

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“What is a place?” asked geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. “What gives aplace its identity, its aura?”

For some people, a sense of place is inextricably bound up witha sense of history. Who lived here before we did? How did theirlives shape this locale, this particular corner of the world?

It is perhaps not necessary to believe in ghosts to believe that aplace can be imbued with some essence of its previous occupants,that nonmaterial traces of their former presence survive in layersevery bit as real as the physical strata that underlie any given spoton earth. It is perhaps not necessary to be overtly religious to feelthat places can become sacred—different in some qualitative wayfrom the ordinary “profane” spaces in which we live and move andhave our being.

A sense of place affects the work of many professionals—urbanplanners, developers, architects, interior decorators, artists—andprompts a host of questions. Can a sense of place be engineered in anew housing development? To what extent should the style orfurnishings of a particular building or room be constrained by whatsurrounds it? Should a public mural or sculpture be conceived withan eye to the particularities of where it will be located?

Modern Americans vary widely in the importance they attachto a sense of place. In many ways, a strong sense of place isantithetical to the spirit of entrepreneurial capitalism, which thriveson fluidity and mobility. If prospects dry up here, one must bewilling to pull up stakes and go there, wherever that may be.

Ironically, however, even an iconic representation of moderncapitalism can acquire a sense of place that engenders strong feelingsamong those who must decide how to preserve its legacy. After thetwin towers of the World Trade Center fell, the question arose:What should be built on that spot?

Perhaps, some said, it should be another tower, maybe eventaller and grander than the original. Perhaps it should be amemorial to those who died in that place. Perhaps part of theoriginal structure should be left standing as a reminder of whathappened there.

Many ideas were proposed; much disagreement ensued; littleconsensus was achieved. But no one said that it doesn’t matter, thatthe place on which the World Trade Center stood was just anotherpiece of real estate in lower Manhattan.

What makes real estate “real”? What turns a particularintersection of longitude and latitude into a place? What forces arerequire to nullify place, to reduce it to ground zero? Conversely,what “gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name”?Shakespeare ascribed that ability to the poet. If he was right,perhaps we are all poets of the landscape, leaving our marks—bothvisible and invisible, for better and for worse—on the places weoccupy.

some distance away. When hereturned, Nathan was soundasleep, his chair strapped to thebuggy seat.

That evening several Amishfamilies gathered for fellowship,to meet me and to sing hymns.The evening was a blessing I willlong remember.

Both Henry and Lydiastated over and over theirgratitude for the help andinterest of so many in St. Anthony Park. They dream ofcoming here by train this comingDec. 7 to relive the memories, iffinances, weather and workallow.

Mary MergenthalSt. Anthony Park

Eliminate tortureThe use of torture by the U.S.military and other federalagencies is shameful, and Ideeply appreciated Barbara ScottMurdock’s incisive andinformative commentary on thisissue in the October Bugle.

The U.S. Senate has beenequally troubled by this issue, asshown by their overwhelmingapproval of the “McCainamendment” to restrictinterrogation methods by themilitary. I applaud their actionbut wish they had applied it toall federal agencies.

Our president threatens toveto the entire DefenseAuthorization Bill if thisamendment is included, claimingit would unduly limit our abilityto obtain crucial informationfrom detainees. How canPresident Bush in goodconscience tell John McCain thattorture is warranted and useful?

Torture is an unpleasantsubject, but at a neighborhoodforum on October 30 we have achance to learn how to eliminatetorture. One speaker, Dr. StevenMiles, has investigated theantithetical role militaryphysicians have played in torture.Holly Ziemer, director ofcommunications at the Centerfor Victims of Torture, willdiscuss what the CVT does toheal victims.

To learn how we can helpeliminate torture, join yourneighbors at 6:30 p.m. onOctober 30 at St. Anthony ParkUnited Church of Christ.

Michael RusselleSt. Anthony Park

Thanks to Boy ScoutsThere were many dedicatedvolunteers and staff at the Sept. 24 neighborhood cleanup.No group was more hardworkingthan the Boy Scouts from Troop17. Again this year they provideda wonderful service to seniorsand disabled persons in thecommunity. They went to

Bontrager family updateThe March issue of the Buglecarried an article by MichelleChristianson about the Amishcouple I was fortunate enough tobe able to befriend in December.

They live near Homer,Michigan. They had beenawaiting the arrival of a youngmother from Canada, whosebaby they were going to adoptafter it was born in Michigan.

But babies have a way ofchanging our plans. Nathanended up being born in a verybig hurry at Regions Hospital onDec. 7. His parents-to-be had torush here on a train the same dayto see him and completeadoption arrangements.

Those arrangements resultedin endless red tape and muchexpense, so Henry and LydiaBontrager and baby Nathanended up staying at my home for10 days.

I am often asked by Buglereaders how things turned outand if I am still in touch withthe family. The adoption is nownearly complete, but the processhas been extremely difficult andexpensive.

The state of Michigandecided this August that theBontragers had to fly the birthmother from northernSaskatchewan to Michigan totestify.

Needless to say, this createdconsiderable trauma: the birthmother had never flown (anddidn’t like it at all); the flight wascomplicated and costly; shecould have “pulled out of thedeal” and taken the nine-month-old, chubby, happy baby backwith her.

I went to visit theBontragers in mid-Septemberand am happy to report that theCanadian mother’s visit wasdescribed by them as“wonderful.” She insisted thatshe would do anything forNathan or for his new family. Sonow, presumably, the state willfinally finish the paperwork wethought was complete lastDecember.

The Bontrager’s home was adelight—quieter and darker inthe evening than any of ours,and there was a lot more pie andhomemade bread at all times!

Henry still had to do hisfarm chores early in themorning, of course, but he tookthe day off from his work as acarpenter in order to spend itwith his family and with me.

We did several errands inthe horse-driven buggy,including getting ice cream conesfor all in Homer and visiting theone-room Amish school. Then,while Lydia and I prepared twolarge potato casseroles she wastaking to the gathering thatevening and their daughterMaryAnn played, Henry tookNathan, now strapped in a carseat, along to load hay bales

homes; loaded their trailers withmattresses, metal, electronics,etc.; and unloaded the materialsat the cleanup site.

They were an enthusiastic,cheerful and efficient teamassisted by their leader, MarkHansen. Many thanks to thescouts and Northwest St. PaulHandyWorks Program for theirkindness and generosity.

Carol MulroySt. Anthony Park

Support Pam HarrisFalcon Heights residents willvote to fill two vacancies on theCity Council on Nov. 8. Anoutstanding incumbent, LauraKuettel, who is running for re-election, holds one of these seats.Three candidates are running forthe second seat, one of whom weenthusiastically endorse.

She is Pam Harris, a write-incandidate who is extraordinarilyqualified to serve the interests ofour community as a councilmember.

Pam Harris is an attorneyspecializing in employment lawand is a graduate of theUniversity of Minnesota andHamline University Law School.She has experience serving ourcity, having been on the FalconHeights Planning Commissionfor four years and its HumanRights Commission for twoyears.

She has 34 years of broadexperience as an employmentattorney representing numerousbusinesses, including theMetropolitan Council, andworked as an internal auditor forInternational MultifoodsCorporation. She has alsochaired and served on severalcommunity nonprofit boards ofdirectors.

As a council member, PamHarris will focus on fourprincipal areas:

1. The city of FalconHeights is a responsive, well-managed, fiscally conservative,small city government. Sheintends to maintain andsafeguard this efficient andeffective management style.

2. She strongly supports thepositive relationships builtbetween Falcon Heights,surrounding communities, theState Fair and the University ofMinnesota. She is a lifetimemember of the University ofMinnesota Alumni Association.

3. As a former planningcommissioner, she has a strategicunderstanding of the city’sComprehensive Land Use Plan,up for renewal in 2008.

4. She strongly supportsresidential participation in thecity’s government and willconsistently seek ways toenhance it.

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Pam Harris is a sharp,intelligent and experiencedleader. She is a team player whowill interact positively with themayor and the other CityCouncil members.

We are proud of FalconHeights’ reputation as a modelMinnesota city. We appreciateour well-kept parks, efficientpolice, fire, snow-removalservices, strong disaster teampreparations and a citizen-responsive city government forrelatively low taxes.

We enthusiastically endorsethe re-election of incumbentLaura Kuettel and write-incandidate Pam Harris, and askyou to cast your vote for themand ensure the continuation ofgood city government on Nov. 8.

Lis Christenson, Martin Dworkin,Russell Hobbie, Karen Kloser,

Barbara Lukermann,Beth Mercer-Taylor, Sheila Richter,

Barbara Shively, Phillips Shively,Carol Weisberg

Write-in candidateI am a candidate for FalconHeights City Council because Iwant to expand the ways to helpmaintain our excellent quality of

life and extensive residentparticipation. I have served onthe Falcon Heights PlanningCommission for the past fouryears, as chair in 2004 and on theHuman Rights Commission fortwo years before that.

I have lived in FalconHeights since 1991 and raisedmy son here. I love FalconHeights. It is my home.

I am a write-in candidatebecause I didn’t join the race untilafter Bob Lamb, an incumbentwho had filed for re-election,dropped out the day after thefiling deadline.

In addition to my city work,I will bring 34 years of businessexperience to the council,including 27 years as an attorneyrepresenting private businessesand cities, counties and theMetropolitan Council; 19 yearsas a leader of local nonprofitorganizations; and three yearsbefore law school as an internalauditor for InternationalMultifoods Corporation.

My experience has taught methe value of collaboration andcollegiality over contentiousness,and I will bring that perspectiveto the council. Also, I have spentmy whole career learning tonegotiate and advocate effectively,skills that will come in handy aswe face future challenges.

I ask that Falcon Heightsresidents consider myqualifications and help elect meto the City Council. Voters forme have to take a step that mostpeople never have before—theyhave to write my name in,because it will not be on theballot. Thank you.

Pam HarrisFalcon Heights

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Lauderdale will hold an electionfor City Council on Nov. 8. Twoseats are open, and threecandidates have filed: ClayChristensen (incumbent), KarenDoherty (incumbent) and DeniseHawkinson.

The Bugle invited them torespond to the followingquestion: What is the mostsignificant challenge facingLauderdale, and how would youaddress that challenge?

Clay ChristensenLauderdale has had a history ofhands-off local government.While that can be fine in someways, I believe it led to reluctanceto spend any money oninfrastructure improvements formany years.

The City Council began toset aside funds for such projectsstarting 10 or 15 years ago. Nowwe’ve completed a four-yearproject that brought our city’sstreets up to today’s standardsand replaced failing sewer, stormwater and utility systems, the firstupgrade in nearly 40 years.

Now we need to apply cityoversight to another area we’veignored too long. We need tolook at rental properties andlandlord responsibilities. Whilemany landlords do a fine job,we’ve had some incidents thispast year of an absentee landlordnot keeping an oversight of thecondition of his property and thetenants’ behavior, resulting inpolice calls to the property.

We don’t want those kindsof problems to continue orbecome worse. We owe it to thetenants, the neighbors and thecity itself to provide a process foroversight of rental propertiesincluding licensing, inspectionand consequences fornoncompliance.

My wife, Jean, and I have lived inLauderdale for 35 years, andraised three children here. I’ve been

a City Council member for eightyears and served 11 years onLauderdale’s Planning and ZoningCommission. In my career, I’vebeen a program manager, financialanalyst and business systemsanalyst.

Karen DohertySince I joined the council, therehave been a few issuessurrounding rental properties.The council needs to spend timecreating a rental propertyordinance that considers theneeds and concerns of thecommunity and neighbors whileencouraging landlords to managethe property responsibly.

Our community has anumber of families that haveestablished roots in the city. Iwish to see Lauderdale remain acommunity that families want tolive in for generations. While ourcommunity has a strong base ofhomeowners, it is also anattractive place for the Universitypopulation. I can see that ourrental community can provide ahometown feel for Universitystaff, professors, students andfamilies.

We need to encouragelandlords to manage theirproperties responsibly. Thisincludes the maintenance andupkeep of the buildings orhomes, choice of tenants andconsideration of neighbors.

We need to create anordinance that providesguidelines of what the cityexpects from landlords. We needto create this ordinance toinclude penalties for the fewlandlords who are not makingresponsible choices, while beingcareful to respect the landlordswho are already considering theneeds of renter, the city and thecommunity.

•Appointed to Lauderdale CityCouncil, June 2005.•Member/chair of Park and

Community InvolvementCommittee, 5 years.•Member of Falcon Heights-Lauderdale Lion’s Club since 2003.•Nine-year career as accountant atmajor financial institution.•Earned degrees in accountancyand business administration fromUniversity of North Dakota.•Married with two beautifulchildren.

Denise M. HawkinsonI believe a challenge facingLauderdale will be reconstructionon Larpenteur and Highway 280.This is a very dangerous sectionof Highway 280 and is a mainartery for Lauderdale.

I feel the configuration ofthis intersection has to beaddressed and improvementsmade to provide safer entranceand exit ramps, while looking atways to reduce accidents on thishighway. It will be necessary forthe Lauderdale Council and citystaff to work together with theMinnesota Department ofTransportation to obtain the bestsolutions for this interchange.

I would work closely withthe mayor, council members, citystaff and the MinnesotaDepartment of Transportation tomake the best decisions for thisinterchange; convey concernsresidents may have; keep the bestinterests of residents in mind;and communicate with residentsabout any developing plans.

•Lauderdale resident since 1989.•Family consists of husband, Mark,and sons, Eliot and Luke.•Park Committee member/chair. •Elected to City Council 1996, re-elected 1998.•Council liaison–Park Committeeand North Suburban CableCommission.•25-year employment withHennepin County.

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Falcon Heights will hold anelection for City Council on Nov. 8. Two seats are open, andthree candidates have filed: LauraKuettel (incumbent), TomLageson and Bryan Olson.

The Bugle invited them torespond to the followingquestion: What is the mostsignificant challenge facing FalconHeights, and how would youaddress that challenge?

Laura KuettelOne of the largest challengesFalcon Heights faces is becomingisolated from our neighbors. Wehave 11 contracts with othermunicipalities for shared services.We contract with neighboringcities or entities to provide ITservices, building inspections,medical insurance, ambulanceand police coverage, to name afew.

Our ability to negotiate withand work toward solutions thatbenefit our residents is necessaryin these difficult budgetary times.Our productive and positiverelationships with the Universityof Minnesota and the State Fairmake it possible for all parties toconsider each other while makingrespective changes in our policiesand land use.

Our city is small, our staff issmaller. Working together withour neighbors produces the mostefficient and experienced results,which saves money, time andenergy. It is therefore necessaryfor our council to approach tasksin a positive and supportivemanner. We must face challengesand relationships with acollaborative spirit. Thiswillingness to work together willhelp us continue on the path ofliving in one of the finest cities inthe state!

•10 years on City Council.•Special Education–ISD 623.•University of St. Thomas.•University of Minnesota MasterGardener Program.•Horticultural Therapy at St. PaulChildren’s and United Hospitals.

•Commission appointment, city ofFalcon Heights.•Past board member, NorthwestYouth and Family Services.•C.E.R.T. (Citizen EmergencyResponse Team).•Married with three teen-agedchildren. •Resident 18 years.

Tom LagesonOur most significant challenge isbalancing city revenues withexpenses while providing the levelof services that residents desire.

Falcon Heights has theenviable position of having largereserves to cushion our budgetincreases without raising our taxlevy. Furthermore, the city isdoing the right thing bymanaging current budget gapswith reserves.

The tricky part comes as weapproach the desired level ofreserves. Then we need tocarefully prioritize our spendingso we can balance the budget.Yearly goal-setting sessions are anexcellent way for citizens toprovide input into the budgetpriorities in a positive manner.

One service to increase is tochange our fall leaf sweepingprogram from two to threesweepings to more effectivelykeep pollutants out of our watersystem. We can also be leadersand invest in our future byconverting our city vehicles toenvironmentally clean alternativefuels.

In addition, we can savemoney and increase efficiency atCity Hall by using open-sourcesoftware. We can be at theforefront of using this highquality software to save significantamounts of money. FalconHeights is a leader now, and Iintend to keep it a leader in thefuture!

•Manager, Information Technology,St. Paul Travelers.•MBA–Management InformationSystems, University of Minnesota.

•5-year member (chair, 2003),Falcon Heights PlanningCommission.•Led and won fight against cityeffort to organize waste collection.•Former chair, Student ServicesFees Committee, University ofMinnesota.•Married, two children, dog owner.

Bryan OlsonThe most significant challenge toFalcon Heights is one that is notplainly visible. It’s the visionneeded to maintain our city forthe next 25 to 50 years.

Maintenance is the key word.We have few immediate needs.Our job is to preserve what wehave now so that it can beimproved upon by futuregenerations. Those are the peoplewhom we cannot saddle with ourdebt obligations or poor land useplanning. They will be the oneswho will be reconstructing ourhousing stock, which will be atleast a century old by then.

I have taken a special interestin what becomes of thecontroversial 1871 Larpenteurproperty, which may present anopportunity for the citizenry tostudy the Larpenteur commercialcorridor as a whole. I would domy best to insure that ourcommercial propertiescomplement their neighborhoods.

City building codes will alsoneed to be re-examined on anindividual case basis asdemolition and reconstruction ofaging homes becomes inevitable.

I’ve been studying andparticipating in the political scenesince I was a teenager. I have abackground in radio, television andthe graphic arts. I provide videoproduction services, includingproducing, writing, editing andduplication. Many of myproductions are in the documentaryrealm, in addition to meetings,events and subjects in the publicinterest.

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When the Country Peddlerclosed in 2001, St. Anthony Parkwas temporarily without aquilting merchant. In April of2004, Susan Stein filled this voidwhen she opened Colorful Quiltsin the Park Crossing shoppingstrip on Energy Park Drive.

Quilting hasn’t always been apopular hobby. Triggered bynostalgia, quilting experienced itsmost recent surge around thetime of the Bicentennial. Becausethis pastime wasn’t common as1976 approached, the present-day“matrons of Minnesota quilting”gathered in an instructor’s hometo learn how to quilt in order toteach others.

When the 1979 St. PaulWinter Carnival hosted a nationalquilting show, interest rose on alocal level. According to Stein,appeal has somewhat leveled offsince.

“Quilting is a business thatprospers in slow economic times.People stay home more,” Steinsaid. Prior to the Bicentennial,the Great Depression was the lasttime quilting’s popularity soared.

At the time Stein learned toquilt, “you had to make a bedquilt, and you had to make it byhand,” she said. Her businesses,on the other hand, have alwaysveered from the norm.

A former St. Anthony Parkresident, Stein opened the first St. Paul site of Colorful Quilts in1980. It offered modern classeslike dyeing and batiking, amethod where parts of the white

fabric not being dyed are coveredwith removable wax.

After closing that shop fouryears later, Stein authored twoquilting books. She also wrotechapters and quilted for SingerSewing and the Rodale Presslibrary. “I would quilt downstairsand then go upstairs to havepictures taken,” she said.

Longing to teach again, Steinreopened Colorful Quilts inRoseville in 1995, andintermittently operated at thatlocation for six years.

Because her Roseville storewas often difficult to find andwas located in a ratherinauspicious strip mall, Steinmoved the business to its currentlocation on the corner of ComoAvenue and Energy Park Drive.

A large portion of the newColorful Quilts store is given overto a classroom, where classes aretaught almost every night of theweek and Saturdays. This fallStein added 11 new courses tothe existing catalog. Basic classesinclude “Machine Quilting 101,”dyeing and painting. Morespecialized courses include“Fabulous Fabric Postcards,”embellishment beading, weavingand journaling—where quilterslearn to chronicle their lives usingphoto transferring.

Not only does ColorfulQuilts now offer a wider varietyof classes, but there are also moreprojects possible. Quilterscontinue to make bed quilts, butthey also make wall quilts, books,

dolls, clothing and otherdecorative items. In order tocreate a more decorative effect,thread selection has become morevaried, too. And it is no longernecessary to quilt by hand sincemachine work is much morecommon.

The fabric used in quiltingcomes from several sources,including local artists supportedby Stein. Artists dye fabricthrough such methods as sunprinting and silk screening, andStein sells their products in herstore. However, since only twoyards of fabric can be dyed at onetime, production is usually slow.

A much larger portion offabric comes from abroad.“Quilting has become sointernational,” said Stein. InIndonesia the complex dyeingprocess is done outdoors. In orderto increase production, Americanartists have traveled to thissoutheast Asian country to teachthe Indonesian artists how to dyeindoors as well.

Not only does Stein teach aweekly quilting class, she alsotakes quilting classes herself. Afterviewing her quilts and listening toher speak so knowledgeably aboutthis art form, Stein’s studentsmust wonder what else therecould be for this woman to learn.Stein believes that quilters ofevery level can still learnsomething.

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“Your head is a bowling ball,”said Nedira LeBlanc. She wasn’tbeing rude, just trying to make apoint—namely, that the humanhead, which weighs as much assome bowling balls, is balancedatop the spinal column, where itrests on the atlas, the smallest andmost mobile of the vertebrae.

The head’s precarious perch,added LeBlanc’s husband, RoddBruntjen, is the cause of manysubluxations, which is whatchiropractors call misalignmentsof the spine. Bruntjen treatssubluxations with a distinctiveform of chiropractic care calledNUCCA, which is the acronymfor the National Upper CervicalChiropractic Association.

Actually, Bruntjen wouldquibble with the term “treat” todescribe his practice, whichopened recently at 2233 EnergyPark Drive in St. Anthony Park.“Calling it a ‘treatment’ reinforcesthe image of the chiropractor’soffice as a fix-it shop,” he said.

Bruntjen prefers toemphasize chiropractic as a meansof achieving and enhancingwellness, which he describes asmuch more than an absence ofpain. “Everyone can benefit fromwhat we have to offer,” he said.

Bruntjen and LeBlanc runMighty Oak Chiropractic, whichopened for business onSeptember 6 in Park Crossing, atthe intersection of RaymondAvenue and Energy Park Drive.They took over space formerlyoccupied by the YMCA. Thehusband and wife did most ofthe remodeling work themselves.

“We spent several monthslooking for a location in St. Paul,” said LeBlanc, addingthat she grew to love the citywhile a student at the College ofSt. Catherine. “We wanted aspot that’s easily accessible,which we have here. And thecharm of the neighborhood is awonderful bonus.”

Previously, Bruntjenpracticed in Rosemount. Thecouple lives in Apple Valley, butwould eventually like to movecloser to their business.

LeBlanc said the nameMighty Oak was inspired by thesaying “mighty oaks from tinyacorns grow.” She looks at thehuman body as being like anacorn in that both need certainthings to grow—water, nutrientsand “a lack of interference.”

“That’s the goal ofchiropractic,” added her

husband—“to removeinterference to the body’sinherent capacity for self-healing.”

He said that NUCCAinvolves only light pressure onthe head and neck. “It’s a verygentle adjustment,” heemphasized. “We don’t do anywrenching of the neck.”

NUCCA starts with three-dimensional x-rays of the upperspine, said Bruntjen, todetermine the preciseadjustments required to restorethe spine to its properalignment. He was first exposedto this particular method as astudent at Palmer College inDavenport, Iowa.

Bruntjen and LeBlanc referto people who use Mighty Oak’sservices as “members” ratherthan patients. They said that’s inkeeping with their commitmentto a wellness model rather than amedical one.

“The terminology isdeliberate,” said Bruntjen. “It’sintended to be less hierarchicaland to reinforce the idea that thepeople we see are activeparticipants in their own health.”

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Look for a new store to opensoon in the space recentlyvacated by Hearts and Vines at Como and Doswell in St. Anthony Park. The newbusiness, Vine and Branches (thesimilarity in names iscoincidental), is a gallery shopfeaturing handcrafts by Christianartists.

The shop is moving fromthe Arden Hills Plaza, where theyhave been for the past sevenyears. The space on ComoAvenue has been remodeled, andowner Laurie Ashbach said theyhope to move in by the end ofOctober.

Vine and Branches willfeature paintings, prints,liturgical fibers, pottery,sculpture, jewelry, cards andbooks, as well as cut flowers fromHermes Floral.

“Our focus is on life events,”said Ashbach—“everything frombirthdays and holidays tobaptism, confirmation,ordinations, etc.”

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stores that offer similar gifts tomark religious occasions, Vineand Branches carries unique workby local, regional and nationalartisans. The store’s customers arechurches, colleges and individuals.

Several artists whose workVine and Branches carries havepieces at Luther Seminary, such asthe richly colored stoles ofliturgical designer Janette Paulsonand the mosaic-style watercolorpaintings of Kirsten MalcolmBerry.

Customers will recognizeseveral artists who sold work atHearts and Vines, such as jewelerDeirdre Olson and calligrapherMarva Sheriff. The shop alsocarries the calligraphy art of JudyDodds, wife of Dr. Jim Dodds,who practiced dentistry in St. Anthony Park for many years.

“A lot of our artists will docommissioned pieces,” saidAshbach, “We are focused onlistening to customers andmatching them to an artist.”

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“We’re excited about movinginto the neighborhood,” saidstore manager Diane Wagar.“The St. Anthony Parkneighborhood has our kind offeel—homey and neighborly.”

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Making media arts accessible and engagingby Natalie Zett

Would you like to build a Website or unlock the mysteries ofdigital photography? Have youever imagined what it would belike to write and produce yourown film?

With the help of one of St.Anthony Park’s new neighbors,the Independent Feature ProjectCenter for Media Arts (IFP), youcan do all that—and more.

For Jane Minton, IFP’sexecutive director, their newhome at 2446 University is adream realized. “The goal was toget this all under one roof,” shesaid. “We moved into this spaceon March 15 and had our grandopening on May 7, 2005.”

Previously, classes and labswere housed at Raymond andUniversity at the old Film in theCities building, whileadministrative offices were inMinneapolis. IFP is a nationalorganization headquartered inNew York City, but each chapteroperates autonomously.

At 5 p.m., when mostbusinesses are shutting down, theIFP offices are bustling. “We havenine people on staff to handle theadministrative work,” saidMinton. Throughout the year,there is also a bevy of internsfrom MCAD, variouscommunity colleges and the U of M there to assist.

A tour of the space revealsstate-of-the-art classrooms, filmand photo editing rooms, anddarkrooms. There are alsospacious meeting rooms and a55-foot wall for photographyexhibitions.

Classes are a huge draw forthe organization. “It’s really justever growing. This comingquarter, we are going to have 34 classes in filmmaking andphotography,” said ReillyTillman, IFP’s director ofeducation.

Along with screenwriting,film and digital video,photography and Web designclasses, Tillman said, IFP hassome unusual classes. One ofthese is cyanotype, one of theearliest methods of photographicimage making, which yields richblue images with maximum tonalrange and nuance.

IFP also houses an extensivelibrary of films, magazines, booksand film scripts. “The best wayto learn screenwriting,” saidMinton, “is to read scripts.”

Besides classes, members canuse the facilities and rentphotographic, video, film, audio,and lighting equipment.

IFP is also a resource for thegreater community “Colleges useour classrooms,” said Minton.“We do a lot of work with kids,too. We’re also partnering withthe Walker—working on a teenprogram for next summer. Wewant to work with publicschools, and we want to reachout to places that don’t havemuch access to media arts.”

In addition, IFP supportsestablished media artists. “Thereare grant programs,” saidMinton. “And we have classes onhow to apply for grants, as wellas special programs, such as thetwo-day film school that’scoming up.”

She encourages thoseinterested in exploring IFP’sofferings to become members.

“If you just want to stickyour toe in the water, then youcan begin with the startermembership,” she said. “Themain goal is to make this anaccessible place to people of allages and backgrounds. That’sreally what it’s all about:democratizing the media, whichseems so polished andinaccessible for most people, butit’s not—especially in the digitalage.”

Young people and the mediais a subject near and dear toMinton’s heart.

“I grew up in a smalltown—Belle Plain, Minnesota.Now, I wasn’t a bad kid, but Iwas kind of a troublemaker,” shelaughed. “I had this 11th-gradeEnglish teacher who said, ‘Youneed something to do, so here’s acamera. Take pictures.’ Then thescience teacher showed me howto develop the pictures. Thatopened the world!”

Upon graduation from theU of M in speechcommunication, Mintoncontinued taking film classes. “Ihad always been interested in

media making,” she said. In1980, I was working on adocumentary and, back then,portable equipment wasincredibly heavy. I was standingon Chicago and 18th in 98-degree heat with this equipmentand I thought, ‘This sucks! I hatethis schlepping!’”

It was a eureka moment forMinton, who admitted, “Iwanted to be more in artsadministration rather than theactual filmmaking. Besides, myfilms were pretty laughable. Imade one based on my poemsthat had an interpretive dancer,and I later thought ‘Please! Sparethe world!’ So I went into artsadministration.”

In 1987, Minton wasworking for another artsorganization when the board ofIFP approached her about doingfundraising and providinginfrastructure to the newlyformed organization. She raisedthe money, and IFP asked her tobe their executive director in1989. She’s been there ever since.“The organization has never, everbeen dull,” she said.

Since 9/11 the playing fieldhas changed for many nonprofits,including IFP. “It’s been achallenge to keep theorganization in the black and tocontinue to provide services,”Minton said.

“What’s different now is thatwe have the influx of newimmigrants. We also have themedia agility of young people.They are so agile with videogaming, cell phones and digitaltechnology. We want to provide aplace where they could be takingthat energy and that knowledge.Last week, I had an older Somaligentlemen come in. He had beena film producer in Somalia, andhe had films that neededsubtitling and we want to helphim.”

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Whenever St. Anthony Park resident FloMcNerney gardens, she does archeology. “We’re

always finding bits of burned wood,” she says. Thosefragments, along with the fieldstone wall that runs thelength of her house at 2286 Doswell and the twohouses south of hers, are reminders of the block’shistory. The Stryker Seminary, which used to standthere, was replaced long ago by a block of city houses.

The “seminary” was a girls’ boarding and dayschool. Its founder, the Rev. Peter Stryker, wanted togive the place a high moral tone. Stryker establishedthe original school, located in Minneapolis, in 1884.He stayed in New York, where he preached andtaught, and sent his daughter Anna to Minnesota toact as the principal.

The Strykers, a well-known New Jersey family,had been ministers and teachers since the early 1800s.Peter Stryker was the third minister in his family in asmany generations. All three studied at the NewBrunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey, thecenter for Reformed religious study, and they allministered to the faithful in New Jersey andproselytized to the godless in New York.

Anna Stryker wasn’t the first woman in her familyto run a school. Her great-aunt, Elizabeth StrykerRicord, founded a women’s seminary in upstate NewYork at the height of the religious revivals of the early1830s. Her graduates went on to become prominentin the social and moral reform movements of the

1840s and 1850s. Anna studied in Germanyin the early 1880s,

unusual for her day, and was well-educated and capable enough to run the StrykerSeminar at the age of 23.

The school soon outgrew its original space on University Avenue S.E. inMinneapolis, and by1889 needed its ownhome. Peter Strykerbought land in St. Anthony Park andhired Minneapolisarchitect Edward S.Stebbins to design thenew school. Stebbinsdrew up plans for theschool building, thegrounds and thefieldstone wall.According to the1889-1890 schoolcatalog, the newbuilding was “attractiveand commodious,three stories high, 70 by 40 feet indimension, with awing 40 by 40.”

The first floorincluded the parlor, where the young ladies received their visitors, and the dining room, where they tooktheir meals, as well as the classrooms. The boarders lived on the upper floors, a relatively luxurious two to aroom.

School life was temperate. The students dressed simply, rose early and went to bed early. They werekindly but closely supervised, and their studies were serious. The preparatory course was good enough toadmit its graduates to the University of Minnesota. The curriculum, in addition to languages, history andscience, included Bible and religion.

Fees were steep. Boarders paid $600 a year and day pupils $100, and even the kindergarten cost a dollara day. The students came from well-to-do families. Nina Clough, who graduated in 1887, was likely thedaughter of Minnesota Senator D. M. Clough, who supplied references for the school.

In 1884, after 10 years of operation, the school ran into financial difficulty and closed its doors. Overthe next 10 years the building changed hands several times, and in 1905 it burned to the ground.

Arthur Evenson, who eventually purchased the land where the school once stood, grew up in the smallMinnesota town of St. Peter, where his family owned a general store. He met and married his wife, IdaHibbard of Illinois, in St. Peter, and worked as a grain buyer for a local elevator. By 1900 their familyincluded three daughters and Ida’s older unmarried sister.

Ten years later Evenson was living in St. Anthony Park, where he would remain for the rest of his life.In almost 40 years, he didn’t move far. He lived on Langford Avenue and Knapp Street before he built thehouse on Doswell Avenue; after that he moved to Como Avenue at Carter. In the mid-1920s, he joined theboard of the St. Anthony Park Bank. He could look from the window of his house on Como Avenue and

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see the bank building on the opposite corner.Evenson bought the former Stryker Seminary site

in 1915 and built his house on the northernmost lot.The house was in the best Prairie School style, with aflat roof and a horizontal orientation. The front stepsand the foundation of the house were set withfieldstone to echo the design of the remainingseminary wall.

Inside, the living room and dining room werepaneled in reddish oak. All of the rooms had built-inbookcases or cupboards. Even the sewing roomoriginally had a fold-out table hidden in a cupboard.Upstairs were two rooms with built-in closets,wardrobes and vanities. It’s likely that the Evensons’four daughters, who ranged in age from 18 to 25,shared those rooms and put the mirrors to good use.The house also had a stylish three-season sleepingporch paneled in narrow strips of pine—a rustictouch in the middle of the city.

Even the basement was well-designed. Evensoncould walk from an attached garage into a room witharched windows on opposite walls. He used this roomas his office. Perhaps he needed his own place toretreat; eventually his mother-in-law joined thehousehold.

The Evensons stayed in the house on Doswell foronly four years. In 1919, they sold it to Frank andEdna Nelson. Frank Nelson was a railway mail clerkwho traveled a great deal, an arrangement that wasprobably a relief to him and a burden to his wife,because the Nelsons had seven children.

A year later, Evenson sold the second lot of his property to Jacob and LauraSaltzman, who built a house that still stands. They didn’t stay long either. In 1923 theysold it to Albert and Elizabeth Wilhoit. The Wilhoits lived in the house for so long thatthe neighbors referred to as “the Wilhoit house,” according to Ann Kersey, who lives there

now. One of the Wilhoit sons, a Boy Scout in the 1930s, planted the great white pine that Kersey calls “thecenterpiece of the yard.”

Arthur Evenson’s house never fell into disrepair, but by the late 1980s, when the current owner boughtit, it was showing its age. Previous owners had taken down the moldings, painted the woodwork, installednew built-ins and remodeled the old ones. They had also neglected the upkeep of the house’s 70 windows.

Flo McNerney slowly began the process of restoring the house. She was pleased to discover that theprevious owners had never thrown any part of the house away. All of it was stashed somewhere in thebasement.

McNerney removed much of the paint from the woodwork, restored the floors, weatherproofed asmuch as possible and is now planning to tackle some of the bigger jobs—like sandblasting the fireplacebrick, weatherproofing the sleeping porch and taking care of those windows. She is also researching thehouse’s history. It has an architect’s design, but the name of the architect is still a mystery.

McNerney has been joined by her immediate neighbors, the Kerseys, in preserving the fieldstone wall.Ann Kersey recalls, “We had the wall between Flo and us rebuilt in 1985. It had fallen down in the night.When I went out in the morning, her side had collapsed, and we knew ours wasn’t far behind.”

The builder who restored McNerney’s side of the wall reused the original fieldstones, Kersey says. Whenshe and her husband had their section of the wall repaired, the builder dumped the old ones and brought innew ones. The endresult is seamless.There’s no differencebetween the oldstones and the newones.

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Open GymSaturday morning open gymstarts Nov. 5 and continuesthrough Mar. 25 at FalconHeights Elementary School, 1393 Garden Ave. The sessionsare from 10 a.m. to noon, andthe cost is $3 per person.

Community PlayroomThe Falcon Heights CommunityPlayroom is open Novemberthrough March at FalconHeights United Church ofChrist, 1795 Holton St.Sponsored by the city of FalconHeights, the playroom is a placewhere adults can bring infantsand preschool children forrecreational play and socialinteraction. It is not a drop-offday care center, but a place forchildren and their caregivers toplay.

Playroom hours are 9 a.m. tonoon on Thursday mornings.The cost is $2 per child or $3 fortwo or more children.

LectureProfessor David Valleskey willtalk about the life of the ApostlePaul in a series of four sessions atMt. Olive Lutheran Church’sReformation Renewal Weekend,Nov. 4-6. Friday’s session beginsat 6:30 p.m. The church islocated at the corner of Pascaland Almond Aves. For moreinformation, call 645-2575.

KarateKarate Junction TrainingCenter, Inc. 1565 Como Ave.,will hold an open house andHalloween fashion show for kidson Saturday, Oct. 29 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Model RailroadsThe Twin City Model RailroadMuseum will hold “A Salute tothe Northern Pacific” on Sunday,Nov. 13 from noon to 5 p.m.Admission is $3; children under5 are admitted free.

The museum is located inBandana Square, 1021 BandanaBlvd. E, Suite 222. For moreinformation, call 647-9628 orvisit www.tcmrm.org.

SalesThe 28th annual Schultz is inStitches Holiday Extravaganzafeatures 150 artists andcraftspersons. The event takesplace Oct. 29-Nov. 6 at the JohnRose Oval, on Civic CenterDrive just northwest of CountyRd. C and Lexington Ave. inRoseville.

Admission and parking arefree. Hours are Saturday 10-6,Sunday 10-4 and Monday-Friday10-9. For more information, call224-1733.

The Weavers Guild of Minnesotapresents its 31st annual Fiber Fairthe weekend of Nov. 18-20 at3000 University Ave. SE inMinneapolis.

The sale features over 50fiber artists, and includes demon-strations of weaving andspinning. Hours are 12-9 onNov. 18, 10-5 on Nov. 19 and12-4 on Nov. 20.

The MOMS Club of SummitHill will hold its second annualShop for a Cause bazaar from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday,Nov. 19 in the auditorium ofIHM-St. Luke’s School at thecorner of Summit and Lexington.

The bazaar highlightswomen-owned businesses andwill benefit the YWCATransitional Housing Program.For more information, call 659-0123.

PeopleThe St. Anthony ParkCommunity Foundationwelcomed two new boardmembers at its September 26annual meeting. KathyDiGiorno is a lawyer forMedtronic. Don Stryker is asoftware engineer at Symantec.

Stryker will serve as treasure,along with other newly electedofficers: co-chairs Paul Fate andCharlie Nauen, first vice-chairCarol Lukas, second vice-chairJeff Blodgett and secretary JayWeiner.

South St. Anthony Park residentStephen Mastey will be featuredin an upcoming episode of“Landscape Smart,” an HGTVhome and garden show that airsat 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29.

The show features Mastey, ayoung couple and theirNortheast Minneapolis backyard. In this episode they willdemolish and re-create thecouple’s back yard, in keepingwith the show’s theme “extraback yard room.”

Business NewsThe Minnesota Chemical Co.,whose headquarters are at 2285Hampden Ave. in south St. Anthony Park, is celebratingits 90th anniversary. Thecompany was founded in 1915by native Irishman R. P. Bakerand has been owned operated bythe Baker family since itsinception. They distributelaundry and dry cleaningequipment and supplies.

For the third straight year, theCarter Avenue Frame Shop hasbeen named one of the top 100art and framing retailers in thecountry by DECOR magazine.The store, which is celebrating its30th anniversary, has also beenrecognized by FramerSelect asone of the best frame shops inthe U.S.

Carter Avenue Frame Shopis located at 2186 Como Ave.and is owned by St. AnthonyPark resident Tim Smith, whoalso owns Gilded Edge Framingin Arden Hills.

VolunteersBig Brothers and Big Sistersneeds volunteers for school-basedmentoring at Murray JuniorHigh School. Mentors meet withstudents for an hour each weekduring the school year. Call 789-2382 for more information.

St Paul Parks and Recreationseeks volunteer swim instructorsto work individually withphysically disabled individuals.Lessons are Tuesdays from 7-7:45 p.m. at ComoElementary. Call 266-7375 formore information

Arts EventsMusic in the Park Series presentsthe New Zealand String Quartetwith Richard Nunns on Nov. 20,4 p.m. at St. Anthony ParkUnited Church of Christ, 2129Commonwealth Ave. Guestartist Nunns plays traditionalMaori instruments: nose flute,conch shell trumpet and variousgourds. He and composer JanikaVandervelde will participate in apreconcert discussion at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $18 in advance,$20 at the door and $12 forstudents (when available). Call645-5699 or visit the Web site atwww.musicintheparkseries.org.

On Nov. 13 at 4 p.m., thePrevailing Winds WoodwindQuintet will present chambermusic at St. Anthony ParkLutheran Church, 2323 ComoAve. The group will performSextet for Winds and Piano byFrancis Poulenc, with guestpianist Darin Tysdal.

On November 19 and 20, a CDrelease concert will be held from

7-10 p.m. at Coffee Grounds,1579 Hamline Ave. The album,“Shade Grown: Best of CoffeeGrounds, Vol. 1,” is acompilation of October’s musicshows. Proceeds will benefit theNonviolent Peace Force.

An opening ceremony for a newart installation, “The BuckthornMenace,” will be held Saturday,Nov. 5 from 2-3:30 p.m. on theWinchell Trail near theMississippi River, at West RiverParkway and East 24th St. Theartwork is made from recycledbuckthorn. Park along SeaburyAvenue or East 24th or 25th St.Walk across West River Parkwayat East 25th and head north tothe staircase.

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Disasters have a way ofaccentuating the importance ofcommunity. Whether your houseburns down in the Como Parkneighborhood, or a tornado hasknocked a tree onto the roof ofyour house in Fridley, or ahurricane and flooding haschased you from your home inNew Orleans, the first questionis, Who will help you with food,clothing and shelter?

The American Red Cross, afamiliar organization to mostpeople, represents the efforts ofcommunities, both local andnationwide, to provide disasterrelief.

It should come as nosurprise that St. Anthony Parkresident Beth Commers, avolunteer for the Red Cross, hashad a particularly busy seasonthis fall.

She is part of a dedicatedteam of people who regularlydrop everything when a phonecall comes in to help people inneed after a disaster.

After September 20,Commers spent a fair amount oftime working out of a sprawlingcement office building on EnergyPark Drive in St. Paul.

That was the location of theState Assistance Center. Inoperation for several weeks, itserved as a one-stop site whererelief agencies could offerassistance to people displaced bythe hurricane in Louisiana andMississippi.

According to Leanne Mairsof the St. Paul American RedCross office, “Within days wehad clients. There hasn’t been adisaster like this—ever. Neverhave so many people beendisplaced to other states.”

In addition to accessing RedCross services, including cashvouchers for temporary food andshelter, visitors to the StateAssistance Center could check inwith FEMA, look for a new jobthrough the MinnesotaWorkforce Center, check intohousing and get some newclothes suited to a new climatefrom the Salvation Army.

Commers pointed out thatthe consequences of thehurricane are not over. “Thereare a lot of people in limbo.Resettling people now is aconcern,” she said.

Although the state has closedthe Assistance Center, the RedCross continues to run a smallerversion at offices on Robert andPlato in St. Paul. Commersestimates that, on a busy day, thecenters have been seeing 50-75families looking for assistance.

One example of the kind ofhelp Commers offered as a RedCross Volunteer last month wasthe reunion of a grandmotherwith her granddaughter.Commers pointed out that it istypical to see people coming toMinnesota who already havefriends or family here who areprepared to give them long-termsupport as they settle into a newcommunity.

Commers helped bring ayoung girl to Minnesota whohad been living in a shelter inBaton Rouge with her motherand grandmother. The familydecided to send the girl toMinnesota to live with her othergrandmother while her motherwent to Atlanta to find work.Commers acted as an agent forthe family, making arrangementsfor the girl to travel as anunaccompanied minor on theplane flight to Minnesota. Shemade sure that the grandmotherin Minnesota had adequateresources for housing andclothing her granddaughter.

There are plenty of resourcesif needed, but there can also be amaze of bureaucracy to navigate.Commers’ role is to see thatfamilies, like this one, getthrough it successfully.

Often Commers found thatshe played an important role justlistening to the stories ofhardship and tragedy people hadto tell. The grandmother of thelittle girl from Baton Rougecame in to the State AssistanceCenter the day after hergranddaughter arrived and gaveCommers a grateful hug.

As a volunteer for Red Crossdisaster services, Commers mightdeal with families affected by fire,flood, tornado and storm,hurricane, earthquake, blizzard,power failure or hazardousmaterial spills.

Despite the demands of abusy family life, which includesher husband and two youngchildren, Commers is on call forup to a week each month for theRed Cross.

“If the phone rings in themiddle of the night,” she said, “Igo to meet people at the scene ofthe fire or at a hospital. I do adamage assessment to determinewhat their immediate disaster-related needs are. Then I givethem temporary housing, food,etc.”

Commers’s involvement withthe Red Cross started over 10years ago when she was anacademic advisor to severalwomen’s sport teams at theUniversity of Arkansas. The coachof the women’s basketball teamasked her to arrange someetiquette classes for the youngwomen and some volunteeropportunities, too.

She decided to visit theoffices of the Red Cross. She setup some work for the basketballplayers, and she found herselfvolunteering for the local chapteron a regular basis, and laterbecame the youngest member oftheir board.

She has continued anddeepened her involvement withthe Red Cross since moving backto her native Minnesota, whereshe is a volunteer Red Cross HIVand AIDS educator. Currently,she goes to the Ramsey CountyWorkhouse once a month topresent information on HIV andAIDS to inmates there.

Commers said that hervolunteer work is an importantpart of how she chooses to buildher life and improve hercommunity. “I had an epiphanyat one point: the way to live yourlife is to give. What I can giveright now is my time and myexperience.”

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rate accessible retail as a toppriority. He noted that St. Anthony Park’s proximity toRosedale and Grand Avenuecreates a challenge for localbusiness owners, many of whommust draw customers fromoutside the neighborhood inorder to be profitable.

Temali said that a healthyretail area typically includesconvenience/service businessesthat appeal primarily to localresidents, as well as “destination”locations that attract people fromoutside the neighborhood. Headded that successful retaildepends on both the efforts ofindividual entrepreneurs and thesynergy created by a thrivingbusiness district.

Moderator Lopez asked whatis currently missing in the localbusiness scene. Wellingtonreplied that the area needs moreretail density. He said St. Anthony Park would profitfrom some kind of anchor storethat would draw more customersfrom outside the neighborhood.

Weyandt countered that St. Anthony Park cannot and

During the October meeting wehad a Halloween party. For oneof the activities we made icecream. The ice cream took a longtime to make, but it was worththe wait!

We also made costumes outof newspaper, toilet paper,balloons, tape and straws. Wehad a costume contest so somekids wore their Halloweencostumes. It was lots of fun!

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should not aspire to becomeanother Grand Avenue. He saidthat shopping area has lost someof its distinctiveness in recentyears with the addition of morechain stores.

Lopez asked how acommunity can resist that processonce it’s begun.

Temali replied that as long asa business conforms to zoningand other legal requirements,there is little that local residentscan do to stop a particularbusiness from moving into thearea. However, he said,communities can be proactive increating the kind of businessclimate they desire.

“If you want a particulartype of store, go looking for one,”he said.

Mary Leonard, owner ofChocolat Céleste on UniversityAvenue, urged residents anddecision makers not to neglectsouth St. Anthony Park. She saidthat many people from outsidethe neighborhood do notassociate the Raymond-Universityarea with St. Anthony Park.

Several local owners talked

about the challenges facing smallbusinesses in St. Anthony Park.Tim Smith, of Carter Ave. FrameShop, mentioned the complexityof the permit process forremodeling his store.

Wellington said there wassome initial resistance to FinnishBistro, which replaced thepopular Manning’s Restaurant atComo and Carter. He also notedthe difficulties—both legal andattitudinal—that confronted therecently opened Little WineShoppe.

Suzanne Fantle, owner ofGustafson Jewelers, said shereceived threatening letters whenshe first moved into her currentlocation on Como. Shespeculated that there wasresistance to the idea that she haddisplaced the former occupant ofthat space.

Ned Wessenberg, who ownsPark Service, said thatimprovements to his facilitycould significantly change itsappearance, and he urgedneighbors to be open to change.

entertainment value out of thewinter hikes,” adds Opsahl. “Joanused to fall quite a bit on the iceand now she doesn’t.”

The other problem iscoming up with snappy retorts tothe “You forgot your skis”remarks they regularly receive.But that’s more than offset by thebenefits of the better workoutand the feeling of being on thecutting edge of a new exercisecraze.

Europeans are way ahead ofNorth Americans in this respect.Scandinavians have long knownthey can practice for cross-country skiing any time of yearby using just poles. But Nordicwalking as an end in itself hasbeen popular for less than 10years, and the InternationalNordic Walking Association wasfounded only five years ago.

The INWA has memberassociations in over 15 Europeancountries. Each association has aneducation committee thatoversees coaches, course manualdevelopment and the production

of educational materials. Thoughpopular in Europe, the sport isjust beginning in other areas.

The only equipment neededfor Nordic walking is the poles,which are the same as ski poleswith the addition of rubber tipsfor sidewalk trekking and metaltips for walking in thecountryside. The poles telescopeto accommodate differing heightsand have some flex so that theywon’t snap off under pressure.

Several stores sell the poles.Finn-Sisu received a shipment ofpoles four years ago and finallygave them to nursing homesbecause of no demand. REI andHoigards sell about six pairs ofski poles a month, but thedemand is higher at Gear Westand Midwest Mountaineering,which offer clinics and informallessons.

Clearly, Nordic walking is inits infancy in Minnesota, thoughit is well-suited for our variableclimate. As Henke and Opsahlknow, 750,000 Finns (andothers) can’t be wrong.

looking for a way to kick up theworkout a notch. She noticed anad for Nordic trekking poles thatemphasized the added upperbody workout. After buying apair and learning to use them bywatching a video, she convincedOpsahl that it was the best wayto increase their workout. Theywere hooked.

“At first it was hard to getused to the noise and activityinvolved with using the poles,”says Henke. “It took a while toget coordinated enough to forgetabout them.”

“It also took some of the

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The Birdmanof Lauderdale

I spent four days in lateSeptember and early Octoberbobbing about on the PacificOcean with three of my birdingbuddies on what are calledpelagic trips. A pelagic trip is aday trip looking for birds thatspend most of their lives out atsea, usually coming to shore onlyto breed.

Our first trip was out ofBodega Bay, north of SanFrancisco. The other three tripswere out of Monterey Bay, to thesouth.

Each boat was a 40-footsport fishing boat with a smallcabin, an open afterdeck, narrowside decks and a small deck spaceat the bow. There were 35 to 40birders on each trip.

After coming on board, weassembled on the afterdeck for anintroductory lecture. Our guide,Debi Shearwater, stronglyencouraged us to take ourseasickness medication if wehadn’t already.

“If you feel sick, move to theback rail of the boat as quickly asyou can,” she said. “If you needassistance, we will help you get tothe back rail. If you don’t feel youneed assistance, we will still helpyou to the back rail.”

Hurling your breakfast overthe side rail would blow backinto others’ faces—very unhappyfaces. Not a pretty prospect. So,back rail it is, and if you’restanding back there looking atbirds, make room for someonecharging back with a green face.

We four snickered and jokedthat those hanging over the backrail would be chumming, feedingthe fish and the gulls.

In fact, Debi has one of hercrew do chumming—tossingpopcorn, crushed snack chips andchunks of anchovy over the backrail from time to time, pulling aflock of squawking gulls along inthe wake of the boat. Her theoryis that this noisy flock will drawin the other birds we’re lookingfor. And she’s right.

We saw a lot of great birdson our first trip. The mostnumerous were sooty shearwaters.A shearwater skims the water,looking like a boomerang withone wing and then the otheralmost touching the surface.Since you’re watching from amoving boat across 500 or morefeet of waves and swells, the birdslips into wave troughs from timeto time and you lose sight of it.

You have to guess whetheryou’ll see it over the next wave orif it will change course and beheading the opposite direction, ifit even appears again. Like mostseabirds, each of the fourshearwater species we saw is astudy in black and white, withthe whiteness of underwing andbelly helping identify which birdyou’re watching.

Besides shearwaters, we sawalbatrosses, the most commonbeing the black-footed albatross,a sooty brown bird with a whiterump patch and a seven-footwing span that also does the“shearwater skim” across thewaves. It’s very impressive to seesuch a large bird skimming witha wingtip nearly in the water.

We saw a number of birdsthat harass gulls, trying to getthem to regurgitate their food sothey can steal it from them, atough way to make a living andtough on the gulls, too, I’m sure.These “pirates” included SouthPolar skuas and pomarine, long-tailed and parasitic jaegers.

The hardest birds to see andidentify were the storm-petrels,small birds six to nine inches longwith wingspans of 15 to 22inches. They’re very dark and flyand flutter like bats ornighthawks, usually just below orat the horizon, so you get verybrief looks at a very greatdistance.

The tour guides can identifythem by size and the way they fly,but a rookie like me just shouts,“Storm-petrel!” and leaves theidentification to the experts.

I added 17 birds to my lifelist on that first trip. With threemore pelagic trips to go, Iexpected a bonanza of life birdsby week’s end.

During our four trips we didsee a number of dolphins andhump-backed whales, butunfortunately we didn’t see manybirds on the last three trips,adding just three new birds to mylife list.

The day of the last trip wasclear and bright, but the swellsreached 12 feet with a strongcross wind that made standingupright rather challenging, letalone trying to look at a bird, andthere weren’t many to look at. Seawater was washing across theafterdeck by the end of the trip.

My buddy, Bill, and I weresitting in a booth in the cabin onthat last trip. The boat waspitching up and down and listingside to side on the swells. Awoman sitting on a side bench,huddled against the window, wasturning greener by the minute. “Igive her less than half an hour,”whispered Bill.

Sure enough, she suddenlystruggled to her feet, clapped herhand over her mouth and headedto the cabin doorway. Herhusband, who had been lookingin to check on her, took her armand shouted, “Mary’s got to getthrough!”

And, by golly, Mary gotthrough. The birders parted, shegot to the back rail and leanedover just in time. Her husbandstood at her left side, gentlyrubbing her back with his righthand and speaking words ofcomfort. Just then, one of thespotters yelled, “Skua, teno’clock!”

Without missing a stroke,the husband switched his lefthand to Mary’s back, spun to hisright and got his binoculars upand on the approaching skua.

You can only do so much forsomebody at the back rail, butyou can still see birds!

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Aging Gracefully by Mary Jo Tarasar

“It was the best of times, it wasthe worst of times.”

These first few words of “ATale of Two Cities” are profoundbecause they are always true. Nomatter what time it is, it is alwaysthe best and worst time that everwas.

The problem for many of usduring the holiday season is thatit is only supposed to be the “bestof times.” So what do we do withour “worst of times” feelings?

For those of us who haveoutlived many of ourcontemporaries, the holidays canbe difficult because there isnothing like this season toconjure up memories of those wecan no longer share our joys andsorrows with.

Others of us may havememories of activities we can nolonger enjoy, foods that no longeragree with us or comfortingtraditions that have died out.

The bottom line is that theholiday season can exacerbategrief we may feel for many kinds

of losses during our lives. At thistime of year, we may feel sadnessand not even be sure why. Somany things have changed.

What can we do when,instead of feeling like countingour blessings, we find ourselvesfeeling lonely and isolated duringthe holidays?

The best defense is a goodoffense. At this time of year, wecan try to find something to doto help someone else. Fromsimply phoning someone weknow is alone, to volunteering ata food shelf or nursing home,when we focus our concern onsomeone else, we’re bound to endup feeling better.

Letting someone know howwe feel is another good way todissipate those very feelings. Weoften find that, when we riskletting someone know we’refeeling low, they can relate to oursituation and together we can feelbetter.

Creating a record of thethings we miss and don’t wantforgotten is another activity thatcan help sweep the blues away.From an oral history spoken intoa tape recorder, to a scrapbook ofaging photos, to a family quilt,creating something tangible tohelp preserve our memories—these are a way to honor the goodtimes of our lives.

Another factor that cancontribute to low feelings aswinter deepens is lack of exercise.Exercise has been shown torelease endorphins in the brain,

which makes us feel good. If youcan’t walk outside in the snowand ice, HarMar Mall has anindoor walking program, andthere are a number of exerciseclasses for older adults available,including the St. Anthony ParkBlock Nurse Program’s free chairexercise class at Seal High Riseevery Tuesday and Thursday.

Most of us can “thinkpositive” and find ways to joltourselves out of holidaydoldrums. But for some thefeeling can drag on for months orworsen.

Depression has been provento be a physical imbalance in thebrain, so that good feelings areprevented from occurring. If thisdescribes you, please take yourfeelings seriously. Considermaking an appointment to see amental health professional. Thechemical imbalance of depressioncan be rectified with appropriatemedications.

Self-care, caring for othersand honoring our memories—simple ways to make our livesbetter on a daily basis. So thisholiday season, remember: it isthe best and worst of time for allof us—all of the time.

The St. Anthony Park Block NurseProgram offers services to olderadults and those who care for them.Aging Gracefully is one way wecommunicate with our community.We welcome ideas and feedback forthis column at 642-9052 orsapbnp@bitstream.net.

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AMERICAN LIFE IN POETRYBy Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate

Although this poem by North Carolina native Ron Rash may seem tobe just about trout fishing, it is the first of several poems Rash haswritten about his cousin who died years ago. Indirectly, the poet givesus clues about this loss. By the end, we see that in passing from life todeath, the fish's colors dull; so, too, may fade the memories of acherished life long lost.

Speckled Trout

Water-flesh gleamed like mica: orange fins, red flankspots, a char shy as ginseng, found only in spring-flow gaps, the thin clear of faraway creeks no map could name. My cousin showed me those hidden places. I loved how we found them, the way we followed no trail, just stream-sound tangled in rhododendron, to where slow water opened a hole to slip a line in and lift as from a well bright shadows of another world, held in my hand, their color already starting to fade.

First published in “Weber Studies,” 1996, and reprinted from “Raisingthe Dead,” Iris Press, 2002, by permission of the author. Copyright1996 by Ron Rash, a writer and professor of Appalachian CulturalStudies at Western Carolina University, whose newest novel is “Saintsat the River,” Picador Press, 2005. This weekly column is supported bythe Poetry Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Departmentof English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. This column doesnot accept unsolicited poetry.

ReadingsThursday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m.St. Anthony Park Library. Nicole Lea Helget, “TheSummer of Ordinary Ways: AMemoir.” Reception follows atMicawber’s.

Sunday, Oct. 30, 10 a.m.Roseville Lutheran Church.Larry Julian (“God is MySuccess: Transforming Adversityinto Your Destiny”)

Saturday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m.Micawber’s. Poets Angie Mlinkoand Ted Mathys.

Wednesday, Nov. 16, 7 p.m.Micawber’s. Deidre Combs(“Worst Enemy Best Teacher”).

Tuesday, Nov. 22, 7 p.m.Micawber’s. Jeremy Mercer(“Time Was Soft There”).

Friday, Nov. 25, 7 p.m.Micawber’s. Ander Monson(“Other Electricities”)

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 7 p.m.Micawber’s. Poets Jim Ruud,Lois Welshons and SuzanneSwanson, Laurel PoetryCollective.

GroupsThursday, Nov. 3, 6:30 p.m. St. Anthony Park Library.

St. Anthony Park Writers Group.All welcome.

Monday, November 14, 7 p.m.Micawber's. Probers’ BookGroup. “Traveling Mercies” byAnne LaMott. All welcome.

St. Anthony Park LibraryFifteen young people from St. Anthony Park, ages 12-17,were among 165 volunteershonored by the St. Paul PublicLibrary on October 11 at theMinnesota Wild RiversideBallroom. The event featuredspecial guests from the Vikings,Wild, FOX 9 Sports and KDWB101.3.

Local Youth Service Awardrecipients were: Sam Anklesaria,Abhik Dhakal, Linnea Holman,Zach Kagan, Sahin Khatoon,Zachary Laskaris, Jim Leng,Zhongling Liu, Sanjay Lohar, IanMcCord, Sylvia Page, MasoomRaja, Rachel Smith, NicoleTempas and Gary Wang.

Story time for preschoolers ages3-5, Nov. 4 and 18, 10:30 a.m.Preregistration requested: 642-0411.

St. Anthony Park LibraryAssociation meeting, Nov. 14, 7 p.m. New members welcome.Contact Rosie (642-0411) formore information.

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NovemberArtsMusicCoffee Grounds 1579 Hamline, 644-9959

Sandero Flamenco November 4, 8 pm

Open mic with Bill Hammond November 6, 6 pm

Real Book Jazz November 7, 8 pm

Bill Cagley’s Roots Music ShowcaseNovember 10, 7 pm

Carol Jean and the Blue Gills November 11, 8 pm

Telebration Concert Preview November 12

Real Book Jazz November 14, 8 pm

The Mamas November 18, 8 pm

CD Release Party of Shade Grown:Best of Coffee Grounds, Volume 1November 19-20

Ginkgo Coffeehouse 721 N. Snelling Ave., 645-2677

Mark Erelli & Jake ArmerdingOctober 29, 8pm

Ellis Paul November 4, 7:30pm

Cosy Sheridan, with Joe Ebel andAnnie LalleyNov. 10

Bluegrass and Oldtime Jam SessionNovember 23, 7pm

Open StageFirst and third Wednesdays6pm sign-up

New Folk Collective 1017 Grand Ave., 293-9021

The Arrogant WormsOctober 29, 7:30pm

Music in the Park SeriesSt. Anthony Park United Churchof Christ2129 Commonwealth Ave.645-5699www.musicintheparkseries.org

New Zealand String QuartetNovember 20, 4pm

St. Anthony Park LutheranChurch 2323 Como Ave., 645-0371

Prevailing Winds Woodwind QuintetNovember 13, 4 pm

PerformingArts

Como Park High School 740 W. Rose Ave.

“Les Miserables” November 10, 7pmNovember 11 & 12, 7:30pmNovember 13, 2pmDinner theatre November 12, 5pm.Reservations by November 7: 293-8800, ext 1174

Visual Arts

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Art… what is it?Each third ThursdayDoors open at 7pmPerformance starts 7:30pm

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2005

Thanks to the St. Anthony Park Garden Club and the St. Anthony Park Foundation, once again you have

the opportunity to have invasive shrubs and trees picked up from your boulevard AND have this pickup

partially subsidized. The garden club is dedicated to protecting our native trees and shrubs and what better

way to do that than by helping control invasive species that destroy native habitats, parklands and your

landscape! This is the sixth year the garden club has provided funding for this effort. To participate, you

must live in the St. Anthony Park or The Grove neighborhoods. Just fill out the form below, attach your

check and postmark no later than November 5th. Once your form has been received, a detailed information

sheet will be delivered to your home explaining how to stack the brush for the pickup. Information on howto remove the brush and/or stump treat will also be provided. Where needed, “No Parking” signs will be

delivered to you for posting on your boulevard in order that the area is accessible for the truck pickup.

Numerous plants are now considered invaders by the DNR. When our program began in 2000, the focus

was on buckthorn. Now, the following woody materials are eligible for pickup with this program: Amur

Maple, Japanese Barberry, Black Locust, Common Buckthorn, Glossy Buckthorn, Honeysuckle, Norway

Maple, Russian Olive, Siberian Peashrub and Siberian Elm. Not sure if you have these invasive plants in

your landscape? Check out our web site at www.justaddwater.ws/woody.htm and you will find detailed art

work of these woody invasives and other non-invasive look alikes. Questions? Call 651-644-7388, press 3

after the message. Your call will be returned in the evening or on the weekend. Please make a copy of this

form before mailing to: S.A.P. Invasive Species Roundup, P.O. Box 8195, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108

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Yes, I want to participate in the 2006 Invasive Species Roundup. Enclosed is my check for $_______ made

payable to SAPGC. I understand I am responsible for cutting or digging and stacking the brush according

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_ 4 to 10 shrubs or 2 small trees $20.00

_ 50 ft. hedge or more than 10 shrubs or 3 small trees $30.00

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NovemberCalendar1 Tuesday• Tot Time (for 5-year-olds andyounger), Langford Park Rec Center(298-5765), 10 a.m.-12 noon.Every Tuesday.

• Toastmasters (645-6675),training in effective speaking, HewlettPackard, Broadway & 280, 7:35-8:35 a.m. Every Tuesday.

• Free blood pressure clinic andhealth resources by the St. AnthonyPark Block Nurse Program, SealHigh Rise (825 Seal St.), 1:15 to2:15 p.m.

• Chair Exercise Classes - Seal HighRise, 825 Seal Street, every Tuesdayand Thursday at 12:30 p.m. Theseclasses are free to all area seniors, butpre-registration is necessary. Call642-9052 to pre-register.

• St. Anthony Park Garden Club, St. Anthony Park Library, 6:30 p.m.

2 Wednesday• Women’s Connection, a women’snetworking organization (603-0954), Hubert Humphrey JobCorps Center, 1480 Snelling,Building #1, 8 a.m. EveryWednesday.

• Leisure Center for Seniors (603-8946), St. Anthony ParkUnited Methodist Church, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch reservations byMonday. Every Wednesday. Freeblood pressure clinic by the St.Anthony Park Block Nurse Program,1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 11-11:45 a.m.

• St. Anthony Park recycling. EveryWednesday.

3 Thursday• Tot Time (for 5-year-olds andyounger), South St. Anthony RecCenter (298-5765), 10 a.m.-noon.Every Thursday.

• Toastmasters (649-5162), U.S. Forest Service, 1992 Folwell

Ave., St. Paul Campus, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Every Thursday.

• Chair Exercise Classes - Seal HighRise, 825 Seal Street, every Tuesdayand Thursday at 12:30 p.m. Theseclasses are free to all area seniors, butpre-registration is necessary. Call642-9052 to pre-register.

• St. Anthony Park CommunityCouncil Land Use Committee, SouthSt. Anthony Rec Center, 890Cromwell, 6 p.m.

• Falcon Heights CommunityPlayroom, Falcon Heights UnitedChurch of Christ, 9 a.m. to noon.Thursdays through March.

4 Friday• Senior Citizen Fun Group (gym,bowling and darts), South St.Anthony Rec Center, 890 Cromwell,9:30-11:30 a.m. Every Friday.(First Friday, blood pressure clinic bythe St. Anthony Park Block NurseProgram, 9-10 a.m.

• Falcon Heights recycling.

• Lecture by Prof. David Valleskey,Mt. Olive Lutheran church, 6:30 p.m.

5 Saturday• Nocturnal Bowling (612-625-5246),10:30 a.m. -5 p.m. at theGopher Spot, St. Paul StudentCenter, 2017 Buford Ave, St. PaulCampus. Every Saturday.

• Art installation, “The BuckthornMenace,” Winchell Trail, Minneapolis,2-3:30 p.m.

• Open gym, 10 a.m. to noon,Falcon Heights Elementary School.Saturdays through March.

7 Monday• Cooking Class at the LangfordPark Rec Center starts today, withfive sessions. 4 - 5:30 p.m., ages 9-12, $15.

• AA, St. Anthony Park LutheranChurch (644-0809), 8 p.m. EveryMonday.

• Boy Scouts, St. Anthony ParkUnited Church of Christ, 7 p.m.Every Monday.

• Como Park recycling. EveryMonday.

8 Tuesday• Lauderdale City Council, City Hall,1891 Walnut St., 7:30 p.m.

9 Wednesday• Creative Movement classes at theLangford Park Rec Center starttoday, with seven sessions. 9-10 a.m., ages 3-5, $35.

• Falcon Heights City Council, CityHall, 2077 Larpenteur Ave., 7 p.m.

10 Thursday• Full Council Meeting, St. AnthonyPark Community Council, South St.Anthony Rec Center, 890 Cromwell,7 p.m.

11 Friday• Invasive species roundup, St. Anthony Park.

13 Sunday• “A Salute to the Northern Pacific,”Twin City Model Railroad Museum,Bandana Square, noon to 5 p.m.

14 Monday• Park Press, Inc., Park Bugle Boardmeeting, St. Anthony Park Bankcommunity room, 7 a.m.

• St. Anthony Park Block NurseProgram board of directors meeting,St. Anthony Park United MethodistChurch library, 7 p.m.

• Lauderdale recycling.

15 Tuesday• Free blood pressure clinic andhealth resources by the St. AnthonyPark Block Nurse Program, SealHigh Rise (825 Seal St.), 1:15p.m.to 2:15 p.m.

• District 10 board meeting. Call644-3889 for details.

16 Wednesday• Leisure Center for Seniors (603-8946), St. Anthony ParkUnited Methodist Church, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch reservations byMonday. Free blood pressure clinicby the St. Anthony Park Block NurseProgram 1st and 3rd Wednesdays11-11:45 a.m..

• Langford Booster Club, LangfordPark, 7 p.m.

18 Friday• Falcon Heights recycling.

19 Saturday• MOMS Club bazaar, IHM-St.Luke’s School, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

22 Tuesday• Lauderdale City Council, City Hall,1891 Walnut St., 7:30 p.m.

23 Wednesday• Falcon Heights City Council, CityHall, 2077 Larpenteur Ave., 7 p.m.

• St. Anthony Park CommunityCouncil Environment Committee, aSo. St. Anthony Rec Center, 890 Cromwell, 7 p.m.

28 Monday• Lauderdale recycling.

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L I V E S L I V E D

Anthony AndersenAnthony L. (Tony) Anderson,who grew up in St. AnthonyPark, succumbed to lung canceron Sept. 20, 2005, at the age of69. He died peacefully at his St. Paul home with familypresent.

Tony, as he preferred to beknown, was born in Minneapolison Dec. 10, 1935, to Elmer L.and Eleanor J. Andersen, then ofSoutheast Minneapolis.

While spending hischildhood years in St. AnthonyPark and attending Murray HighSchool (class of 1953), he enjoyedand nurtured the manyfriendships that he formed whileparticipating in high school choir,Gilbert and Sullivan operettas,swimming, and ski racing andjumping.

This tight group ofchildhood friends, knowncollectively these days as “theGeezers,” continue to celebratetheir lifelong bond on biennialcanoe trips in northernMinnesota.

As a teenager, Tony had hisfirst experience as an employee ofthe H. B. Fuller Company whenhe filled and labeled jars of schoolpaste at the Eagle Street plant.

After earning his B.S. degreeat Macalester College, he began anew chapter with the company asa full-time salesman in Omaha,Neb., in 1957. He becamepresident of the company in 1971and served as CEO from1974–1995, and as chairman ofthe board of directors from1992–1999. In 1988, CorporateReport Minnesota named Tony“Executive of the Year.”

In addition to his work atFuller, Tony served as a trustee onnumerous corporate boardsincluding ECM Publishers,Minnesota Thunder, ApogeeEnterprises, Cowles MediaCompany and Minnesota MutualLife Insurance.

His board service extendedto the nonprofit sector as well,including the Amherst H. WilderFoundation, the Center forEthical Business Cultures, theJames J. Hill Reference Library,the Minnesota Council onFoundations, Casa de Esperanza(advisory board), the Saint PaulChamber Orchestra, theMinnesota Landscape Arboretum,Macalester College, VoyagerOutward Bound School, theGreater Twin Cities YouthSymphonies, the Elmer L. &Eleanor J. Andersen Foundationand the Trillium FamilyFoundation (founder).

Tony loved being on thewater any way he could manageit, from sailing to motoring,fishing to skiing. This passion,combined with his flair for salesand marketing, led him topurchase Edey & Duff, Ltd., asmall sailboat manufacturingcompany in Mattapoisett, Mass.

After retiring from the FullerCompany, Andersen had moretime to devote to Edey & Duff.

Tony’s many other lifelonginterests included photography,skiing, vintage car racing andcollecting, scuba diving, canoe-camping and keeping up withtwo busy grandchildren.

Though based in St. Paulafter retirement, Tony enjoyed flyfishing in Colorado, tarponfishing in Florida, vintage sportscar racing in various locationsacross the United States andtouring the United Kingdom inhis London taxi.

Tony was preceded in deathby his father, former MinnesotaGov. Elmer L. Andersen. He issurvived by his mother, Eleanor J.Andersen; brother, Julian (Jamie)Andersen and sister, EmilyAndersen; daughter, Amy (TimWilson) Andersen; grandchildren,Shelby Katherine and CalebJames Wilson; and nephews,Nathan Lee and Benjamin LeeAndersen; also by extendedfamily in the United States,Norway and Sweden; and bymany cherished friends andcolleagues.

A public memorial servicewas held at the WeyerhauserChapel on the campus ofMacalester College on Oct. 16.Interment was at HillsideCemetery.

Beatrice GarubandaBeatrice N. Garubanda, bornChristmas Eve, 1955, died onSept. 19, 2005, at the age of 49.She came to the U.S. fromUganda, Africa, in 1987,accompanying her husband, whowas a student at the University ofMinnesota.

Beatrice received her primaryeducation in Buyanja, attendedGayaza High School and receivedher diploma in teacher educationat Makerere Kyambogo. She thentaught in Uganda and Kenyasecondary schools. She receivedan M.A. in theology at LutherSeminary, St. Paul, and an M.A.in education at the University ofMinnesota.

Beatrice had been a memberof St. Matthew’s EpiscopalChurch in St. Anthony Park since1979. In 1998, she was formallyrecognized as the minister forrefugees, international studentsand immigrants at the church, anunpaid volunteer position.

Her funeral service was heldat St. Matthew’s. Burial was inUganda, Africa.

Beatrice was preceded indeath by her father and twobrothers. She is survived byhusband, James P. Garubanda;children, Esther, Joshua, Lydiaand Ampa; mother, Merabu; and11 siblings.

Beatrice started anorphanage, Blue House, inUganda in 2003. Uganda wasone of the first countries to

recognize and respond to theAIDS epidemic.

Contributions to help thesechildren can be made to HopeMultipurpose, Inc., at HMI, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church,2136 Carter Ave., St. Paul, MN55108.

Robert GranovskyRobert Alexander Granovsky, age73, of St. Anthony Park, diedpeacefully on Sept. 21, 2005. Hewas born Aug. 16, 1932, and hadbeen a lifelong resident of St. Anthony Park.

He attended GuttersenElementary School and graduatedfrom Murray High School. Aftermilitary service he attended theUniversity of Minnesota, wherehe met Marlene Mueller. Theywere married in 1957.

Bob served in the U.S. AirForce from 1952-56 at SheppardAir Force Base in Wichita Falls,Texas. He was honored with aNational Defense Service Medaland a Good Conduct Medal.

Bob was employed by 3Mfor 27 years, working incommunity relations. BomarAntiques (a business named bycombining his first name and thatof his wife, Marlene) occupiedmuch of his attention. Bomarowned a shop in Nisswa, Minn.,where it and other dealers soldantiques. In addition, Bobtraveled south each winter todisplay at antique shows.

He was active in Kiwanis formany years. His club, the KiwanisClub of East St. Paul, consisted ofbusinessmen from that area. Hemet weekly for lunch withKiwanis friends, long after any ofthem had been active in theorganization.

Bob was a U.S. Swimmingofficial, and officiated, refereedand served as a starter for swimmeets in the late 1970s and mid-80s.

The International Institute ofMinnesota benefited, too, fromBob’s attention. He was presidentof the Institute from 1973-74.His father had been active in theInstitute when it was first formed,shortly after his arrival followingWWI. Bob Hoyle, formerexecutive director of the Institute,said, “Bob recognized thatimmigrants brought importantenergy to our community. Andhe didn’t forget how to doUkrainian egg painting.”

He is survived by childrenTania Hueg of Roseville, Mark ofCalifornia and Paul (Jenny) of St.Anthony Park; and grandchildrenDaniel Hueg, and Nicholas,Alexandra and Emma Granovsky.

His funeral service was heldSept. 27 at St. Anthony ParkLutheran Church, where he hadbeen a member for many years.Interment was at SunsetMemorial Park.

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Kenneth HansonKenneth Paul Hanson, ofShoreview and McGregory (BigSandy Lake), formerly of FalconHeights, died on Sept. 17, 2005,at home after a short battle withcancer. He was born on Sept. 15,1917, in Minneapolis.

Ken was a Navy veteran ofWWII. He owned Falcon Bakeryand the Lamplighter Inn of St. Anthony Park, and workedfor Super Valu and Byerly’sopening bakeries. He was an avidfisherman, hunter, golfer,vegetable gardener and avoracious reader.

Survivors include his wife of64 years, Joyce; daughters, KathyDaniels (Dave) and Sue Behrens(Dave Guerin); grandchildren,Troy Daniels (Lisa), KristineHolst (Craig) and Kelly Behrens(David Nelson); and great-grandchildren, Kelsey and KyleHolst. His memorial service washeld Oct. 8 at Falcon HeightsUnited Church of Christ.

Hilliard H. SmithHilliard H. Smith died at the ageof 100 on June 27, 2005. Hespent the last two years of his lifein the St. Anthony Park Home.He was a 60-year resident of St. Anthony Park.

Smith served in theMinnesota National Guard forfive years. He played piano andbanjo and had a band during the1920s that played at various clubsaround the state. He was playingat one of these functions in thespring of 1927 when the bandquieted and it was announcedthat Charles Lindbergh hadsuccessfully flown from NewYork to Paris.

Smith became a unionorganizer in the 1930s and ranfor alderman. He was active inpolitics all his life. He was amember of the Mont ParnasseArt Society and, as a prolificpainter, had private showings andexhibited at the Minnesota StateFair.

He was also a member of theSt. Anthony Park Association andthe St. Anthony Park RetiredMen’s Club for many years. He

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spoke and wrote in ancient Greekand traveled the world. He wrotepoetry, short stories and his epicstory of the creation, “MagnumOpus.”

He was preceded in death byhis wife of 64 years, EvelynErickson Smith, and is survivedby his son, Hilliard E. Smith, anddaughter, Catherine Hobson(both from St. Anthony Park);two grandchildren; and threegreat-grandchildren.

Esther PaulsenEsther J. Paulsen died Aug. 19,2005, at the age of 99.

She was preceded in deathby her husband, Arthur Paulsen.She is survived by daughter,Karen (Gary) Grundy; son, Bruce(Barb); granddaughters, Tami(Patrick) Norton and MichelleMulford; and great-grandchildren, Molly JeanNorton, Megan MichelleMulford and Maverick DeanMulford.

Her memorial service washeld on Sept. 18 at LyngblomstenCare Center Chapel.

Compiled by Mary Mergenthal

There is no charge for obituarynotices in the Bugle. If you knowof a local resident (Como Park,Falcon Heights, Lauderdale or St. Anthony Park), please contact

Mary Mergenthal at 644-1650 ormary.mergenthal@comcast.net.

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9:30 a.m. Sunday School10:45 a.m. Worship Service, Pastor Bruce Petersen6:30 p.m. Wednesday Kids’ Club, Youth Group, Prayer

❖ COMO PARK LUTHERAN CHURCH - ELCA1376 Hoyt Ave. W., St. Paul, MN 55108-2300 651-646-7127Handicapped Accessiblecplc@mninter.net CPLContact ministry 651-644-1897www.comoparklutheran.orgSunday Worhip Schedule:

8:00, 9:00, & 11:00 a.m. Worship (nursery care provided 8:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.) 10:00 a.m. Adult Education and Sunday School (Holy Communion on 1st & 3rd Sundays) Rides available for 11:00 a.m. worship;

Call the church office before noon on Friday for ride.Sunday, November 6: Gabriel Faure’s Requiem presented by the Como ParkLutheran Church Choir, with organ and orchestra.

Please join us on All Saints Sunday for this special music presentation during our 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. services, to celebrate the lives of those who have gone before us.

Wednesday, November 24, 7:00 p.m.: Thanksgiving Eve Worship and Pie SocialAll are welcome to join us for our worship service at 7:00 p.m., with coffee, pie, and great fellowship to follow.

Pastors: Martin Ericson and Mary Kaye AshleyVisitation Pastor: Leonard JacobsenDirector of Music Ministry: Thomas Ferry

❖ CORNERSTONE ECUMENICAL CATHOLIC CHURCHAn Ecumenical Old Catholic Community2200 Hillside Avenue / 651-776-3172

Sunday Eucharist: 5:30 pm in Upper ChapelVisit our website at: www.cornerstoneecc.org

❖ NORTH COMO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH965 Larpenteur Avenue W., Roseville651-488-5581, ncpcmain@northcomochurch.orgwww.northcomochurch.org

Sunday Services: Worship 9:45 a.m., Education 11:00 a.m.Handicapped accessible.

❖ PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH - ELCA1744 Walnut (at Ione) Lauderdale. 651-644-5440www.peacelauderdale.com

Sunday Worship: 10:00Education: 9:00 a.m.Pastor: David Greenlund

All are welcome - Come as you are

❖ ST. CECILIA’S CATHOLIC CHURCH2357 Bayless Place. 651-644-4502Website: www.stceciliaspm.orgHandicap accessible

Saturday Mass: 5:00 p.m. at the churchSunday Masses: 8:15 a.m and 10:00 am at the church

(nursery provided during the 10:00 am Mass)

LIFE IN THE CHURCH: COME AND SHARE❖ SPIRIT UNITED CHURCHHonoring Spiritual Transformationwww.spiritunited.com3204 Como Avenue SE, Minneapolis, 612-378-3602

10:00 a.m. World Service Guided Meditation10:15 a.m. Aquarian Communion10:30 a.m. Sunday Service

❖ ST. ANTHONY PARK UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST2129 Commonwealth at Chelmsford. 651-646-7173Website: www.sapucc.orgHandicapped accessible and an Open and Affirming Congregation.Rev. Howard Tobak, Transition MinisterSue Grove, Child & Youth Coordinator Adult Ed. 8:30 a.m. Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m., Fellowship: 11:00 a.m.

Nursery care & Sunday School provided - 10:15 a.m.Sunday, November 6, 10:00 a.m. - All Saints Worship/Holy CommunionSunday, November 6, 10:00 a.m. - Praise Music WorshipSunday, November 13, 10:00 a.m. - Intergenerational ThanksgivingSunday, November 27, 10:00 a.m. - Greening of the Church during Organ Concert

❖ ST. ANTHONY PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHAll are welcome!2200 Hillside Ave (at Como) 651-646-4859Pastor Donna MartinsonGo to www.sapumc.org for more about our church.Sundays:

10:00 a.m. Worship Celebration10:20 a.m. Sunday School for 3 years old to 5th grade 11:00 a.m. Fellowship & Refreshments

More to choose (call us for details)Faithfully Fit Forever - Mondays, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.Faith 411 (youth) - Wednesdays, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.Choir - Wednesdays, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

❖ ST. ANTHONY PARK LUTHERAN CHURCHWe are a community of believers called to joyfully serve God, one another, and the world.www.saplc.org2323 Como Ave. W. Handicap-accessible. 651-645-0371Pastors Glenn Berg-Moberg and Amy Thoren, Email: info@saplc.org

Worship: 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.Education Hour for all: 9:45 a.m.

Sunday, November 13, 4:00 p.m. - Prevailing Winds Woodwind Quintet(No admission charge)

Thanksgiving Service, November 24, 10:00 a.m.Minnesota Faith Chinese Lutheran Church 1:30 p.m.

❖ ST. MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCHThe Rev. Blair Pogue, Rector2136 Carter at Chelmsford. 651-645-3058Website: www.stmatthewsmn.orgThanksgiving Day Service - Thursday, November 24 at 10:00 a.m.Sunday Services:

8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Rt. I)10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Rt II)4:00 p.m. Prospect Hill Friends Meeting