Re: [Mpls] Wellstone's Memorial
In a message dated 3/21/03 5:35:31 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << >> Jon Sez: Now here'e a list thread with some meat on it. Does anyone have access to a geographical survey of our city? I mean I grew up looking down on Nordeast and I'm not giving up without irrefutable proof that I can't continue to do so. >> Jon sez to himself: Okay, next time read all the incomings before responding. I'll now waste my last post by saying that high, higher or highest; It is a precipitous rise from University Ave. and feels wonderfully lofty when standing atop--especially when they open the tower and you can climb up. My original point before this whole thing digressed into Nerdland was that this was a very fitting site for a Wellstone Memorial. Alright, I rather enjoyed the Nerd stuff too. And I'll always look down on Nordeast when I'm up there. I mean, who has a school named for Edison and thinks some unspayed tom cat should be their mascot? A Marshall Cardinal ( John Marshall being the first avian to serve on the Supreme Court. Our mascot made sense!) Jon Gorder Loring Park "I'm going to join this club and beat you with it". Marx (Julias) 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
Re: [Mpls] Wellstone's Memorial
In a message dated 3/21/03 11:46:28 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Highest point of land in Minneapolis is NE Minneapolis, by Columbia Park. >> Jon Sez: Now here'e a list thread with some meat on it. Does anyone have access to a geographical survey of our city? I mean I grew up looking down on Nordeast and I'm not giving up without irrefutable proof that I can't continue to do so. Jon Gorder Loring Park "Nothing so needs reforming as other peoples habits" Pudd'nhead Wilson 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
RE: [Mpls] Wellstone's Memorial
Highest point of land in Minneapolis is NE Minneapolis, by Columbia Park. Jon Gorder said... A landmark tower on the highest point of land in Minneapolis. Not a bad memorial for a towering liitle man. Bruce Anderson Blaine, MN 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
[Mpls] Wellstone's Memorial & Park Cuts
IMHO... My guess is that one of the things we look back on 20 years from now will be a variety of Memorials to the Wellstones, all three of them individually and/or collectively throughout Minnesota. There will be Board Rooms, and statutes, and schools and parks and community centers, endowments, scholarships, parades, events, public policy Institute's and courses and lessons learned - you name it all over the place. So everyone that wants to name something after them should just figure out how to do it and go for it. So far, all the suggestions I've heard sound good. Remember, you can never have too much of a good thing. And for your reading pleasure - seeing your parks in a different way - the cuts are in the paper this morning. Here they are for you.. Minneapolis Parks board eliminates teen jobs, 24 wading pools, portable toilets Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune Published March 21, 2003 http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3770634.html Peace. Annie Young East Phillips
Re: [Mpls] Wellstone's Memorial
Jon Gorder said: It's never been named anything. We who grew up there just called it Tower hill. It hasn't functioned as a water tower since who knows when. It's kind of waiting for a purpose. A landmark tower on the highest point of land in Minneapolis. Not a bad memorial for a towering liitle man. Diane Wiley of Powderhorn says: Many of us who went to the U of M in the sixties called it "Yeats' Tower" -- or "The Witch's Hat" -- I can't think of anything better than to name it after Paul. 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
Re: [Mpls] Wellstone's Memorial
I regret that Paul's only cogent connection with Prospect Park ( Where Schneiders has dwelt all these years) was that he garnered something like 90%of the vote there. If he and family had only lived there awhile I don't think there would be too much outcry if it were proposed that the neighborhood landmark tower were named after him. It's never been named anything. We who grew up there just called it Tower hill. It hasn't functioned as a water tower since who knows when. It's kind of waiting for a purpose. A landmark tower on the highest point of land in Minneapolis. Not a bad memorial for a towering liitle man. Jon Gorder Loring Park ` "Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes the law." Puddin'head Wilson 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
[Mpls] Wellstone's Memorial
List member Susan Marcicle asked me to post the URL to a column that Doug Grow wrote about political discussions at Schneider Drug, which is owned by Tom Sengupta. There's no live link but those with access to the Library can look it up online. It appeared on page 2b on Aprtil 10, 2000. Steve Brandt Star Tribune 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
Re: [Mpls] Wellstone's Memorial
From: Annie Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mpls] Wellstone's Memorial Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:23:24 -0600 [AY]"SCHOOL MAY HONOR WELLSTONE WITH NAME CHANGE" Marcy Open School in Southeast Minneapolis is considering changing its name to honor the late Senator Paul Wellstone. [JM] I'm a fan of the late Senator Wellstone for a number or reasons not the least of which that prior to becoming a Senator Professor Wellstone and family were wonderful neighbors for my grandmother in Northfield. I would be in favor of naming a school in his honr and an Open School seems appropriate. I'm curious, however, as to the origin of the current name of Marcy Open School. Perhaps its a non-issue since the neighborhood will continue to carry that name, but is there a historian online that can answer this? Jim McGuire Como _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail 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
Re: [Mpls] Wellstone's Memorial
A Heritage Park school/park/community center would make three Minneapolis
schools interested in the Wellstone name (St. Paul has six). I couldn't find
the One Nation News story online, but for another article about the proposed
school name change (from before the March 6 community meeting), see:
http://www.southeastangle.info/articles/article.php?id=16 ("Marcy considers
bid for late senator's name"). The next Southeast Angle will have more
coverage at the end of the month.
Chris Steller
Editor, Southeast Angle neighborhood newspaper
www. southeastangle.info
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[Mpls] Wellstone's Memorial
This came over the wires from the e-newsletter, The Minneapolis Observor. "SCHOOL MAY HONOR WELLSTONE WITH NAME CHANGE Marcy Open School in Southeast Minneapolis is considering changing its name to honor the late Senator Paul Wellstone. The move is being discussed by a group of parents and staff members, reports One Nation News (http://www.onenationnews.com). "Wellstone embodied many of the traits and qualities taught at Marcy Open School, respect for the individual, importance of education, celebrating diversity, and compassion for the world," said a representative of the group, which met for the first time March 6. A name change would require the approval of the school board." The reason I bring this up is that there has been some current/informal discussion about the possibility of naming a school/park/community center complex at the Bethune site in Heritage Park after the Wellstone's with something like the Wellstone Family Center. Anyone have more thoughts or considerations on this topic - where should a Wellstone Community Memorial be in Minneapolis? Annie Young citywide Park Commissioner
