Please Jill, do not lump all Southsiders together. Some of us are also in neighborhoods where you have to dodge bullets.
Eric, a really cool person who had beaten chemical addiction and Franklin Avenue to live in the neighborhood after living in a cardboard box in the Ventura Village Neighborhood was murdered last night. The poster child of success and reclaimed lives was taken by those same mean streets that he had escaped a life on. We in Ventura Village mourn tonight for him and his family. We took such pride in him and his power to return from that evil voyage of addiction, but he has been taken now. We will miss that demonstration of such power to re-control one's life. It was an example for each of us in the power of the spirit if we allow it into our lives. Real Communities take more pride in those who have been "recovered" sometimes than its regular members, because they have been lost and then again found. We will miss Eric's good humor and "Truth", but mostly we will miss him. He was a part of each of us. Jim Graham, Ventura Village >"We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be" - A Cherokee Feast of Days ----- Original Message ----- From: j c harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [Mpls] Sabo Named 2002 Noise Legislator of the Year > Are you sure you didn't mean to say Noisiest? > How many deaths have been a direct result of airport noise? Not nearly as > many as a stray bullet I wouldn't think. And wasn't the airport there FIRST? > Doesn't that sort of give them 'dibs'? > While south siders are whining about nuisances such as airport noise and why > their lakes are 'so stinky', north siders are dodging bullets. There ain't > no justice. > Jill Harmon > Cleveland > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > TEMPORARY REMINDER: > 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) > > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
