I agree with the List Manager - lower the volume! There were no "classes" at the CUE awards. Three of us awardees had green thumbs - the peace gardens at Horn and on the West Bank and Ed Burke's garden design studio and nursery in Phillips. Two awardees were public entities - the city council chamber and the Lake Harriet women's restroom restorations. Three awardees brought new occupational life to the city - professional offices to the Banks Building and the Grainbelt Brewhouse in old St. Anthony and new artists' quarters built along the old streetcar line on Chicago Ave.
Other 2002 CUE finalists referenced streetscape facelifts along Central and Franklin Avenues, new interior life to the Illusion Theater quarters in downtown's entertainment district and Linden Hill's branch library, recognition of the new Lutheran church also on Chicago Ave., the plaza and mosaic mural that now grace Resource Center of the America's home at 27th and Lake and celebrate Latino life in our city, and the labor of love that compiled a history of the Linden Hills part of town. For the life of me, I can't see classist origins in any of this. We were entertained by a transmogrified Gilbert and Sullivan ditty compliments of our mayor, a city council person, and the NRP director and titillated by new thinking about urban design laid on by the director of the U of M's design institute. Granted my young companions and I rushed off to a Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet to reinforce CUE's delicate canap�s and maybe next time we're up for a CUE award we'll fortify ourselves with a picnic basket full of more substantial goodies, but I digress. My point is that the spirit of the occasion was suitably egalitarian and vintage Minneapolitan. My fervent expectation is that we'll be welcoming West Broadway and its environs to CUE's honor roll in the near future and that's about community spirit, not money. Fred Markus, Horn Terrace, Ward Ten, in the Lyndale Neighborhood --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.443 / Virus Database: 248 - Release Date: 1/10/2003 TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
