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Minneapolis tent encampment gets reprieve after residents, volunteers organize Mpls. cancels eviction as tightknit residents with local support seek permanent housing. March 1, 2021 1:08pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Homeless encampments have popped up and come down repeatedly in the last nine months at sites around the Twin Cities. But at the Near North encampment in Minneapolis, a strong community bond and help from neighborhood volunteers may lead to something more lasting.
With the city delaying its eviction notice indefinitely, organizers at the encampment think they re on a path to permanent housing for all its residents. The aim is to have enough time and access to resources to purchase a building that the residents here can have a hand in creating, said Mandla Xaba, a resident of the Near North encampment.
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Tammy Diethelm has seen a lot of changes in her 43 years driving a school bus in the Eastern Carver County school district.
She watched many of the district s schools get built and navigated the bus over gravel roads before they were paved. She witnessed children grow from wide-eyed kindergartners into high school graduates.
But the COVID-19 pandemic, she said, has resulted in some of the biggest and most difficult changes of all. It s put a big damper on a lot of things, Diethelm said. Kids don t get as close to you anymore. You don t do the high-fives anymore. A lot of them now don t even want to say good morning to you.
Winnipeg Free Press
A Jets fan like no other
Ron Bunio helped create his beloved hockey team s Booster Club in 1972; before long, he was doing game-day PR and had a seat on the franchise s board of directors By: Geoff Kirbyson
If you were a Winnipeg Jets fan in the 1970s and ’80s, Ron Bunio may have been responsible for as much of your hockey enjoyment as Bobby Hull or Dale Hawerchuk.
If you were a Winnipeg Jets fan in the 1970s and ’80s, Ron Bunio may have been responsible for as much of your hockey enjoyment as Bobby Hull or Dale Hawerchuk.
3 health care heroes from Hennepin History Museum s new exhibit February 19, 2021 3:05pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Frances McHie Rains
Thiede s favorite story in the exhibit: Frances McHie applied to the University of Minnesota School of Nursing in 1929. Because she was Black, the school rejected her application. McHie brought the issue to the Minnesota Legislature, which voted that she should be enrolled in the school. Three years later, she graduated at the top of her class. She also went on to break color barriers across the country, Thiede said. She was not only a nurse, but obviously an activist. She was an educator. She was the first Black nursing supervisor at Minneapolis General Hospital and later worked in cities across the United States. She married Dr. Horace Rains in 1951 and settled down in California, where she continued to break barriers in medicine and work in community service.