[Mpls] Enjoy our parks and lakes!

[Annie Young]

Finally - a plus and positive editorial about the Minneapolis Parks.  As you all enjoy this gorgeous weather and a true Minnesota summer in our Parks thank our lucky stars that for 130 years an Independent Park Board has developed and maintained the extensive park system of our city.
While it looks like the City Council and Mayor are ready to take another stab at getting rid of the Park Board let them be the 100th Council that has tried to do that.  And each time they try citizens of Minneapolis rally and say, "Are  you crazy?  If it's a Department our land would be gone in just a matter of years - it is so tasty and sensuous to think about selling off some of those little pieces of land for oh, so much that could build our city coffers with $'2 again.
But on this beautiful summer day let us remember why we all love Minnesota and love Minneapolis and love our parks and lakes.
Enjoy!
Annie Young
citywide Park Commissioner

Our natural beauty
Thank you, Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board, for planting the field of beautiful prairie flowers (my mother called them black-eyed Susans) at the southwest entry to the Stone Arch Bridge.
It's about time that Minnesotans begin appreciating the prairie grasses and flowers that thrive here in their native climate.
-- Kathleen Clarke Anderson, Minneapolis.

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