Re: [Mpls] Dairy Queen

[ABerget]

At the risk of enrolling in the Slippery Slope School of Anxiety, I am loathe to see the franchising of our parks in any way. When I was a member of CLIC, one of "our" collective civic embarrassments was the distinction of Minneapolis having the only public park with a liquor store on the land. Wasn't that Peavy Park beside the old Mt. Sinai Hospital, later Four Winds Schools?

Enterprises like Dairy Queen, Pepsi and other less savory ones love to "brand" sites where kids congregate. Remember the WINSTON sign that used to welcome you to the Metrodome?

Let's just stop while we're ahead and say no now before we're in a situation where we have to craft contorted policies that allow DQ in, but everyone else out.

I know, I'm a nerd...but jeez, I hate the franchising of America.

Ann Berget
Kingfield 10-10