The phrase ‘Sesquicentennial Legacy Plaza’ is the new name for what’s been called (in various permutations) the Water St. parking lot pedestrian promenade. I drove by Wed. aft and saw…
Category: <span>Arts & Culture</span>
In today’s Star Tribune, Minnetonka’s City Manager John Gunyou has an opinion piece titled “The case for the arts in Legacy Admendment“. Gunyou advocates for the arts in the Legacy…
As a logical followup to my earlier post on the “Eat Local” challenge, I was reading a report of the Slow Food Nation conference in San Francisco earlier this month.…
Robbie and I’ve been in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico the past week, vacationing with some friends from Kenyon, MN. (You may have been wondering about the lack of quality/quantity of my…
Sacramento recently held their annual Chalk It Up! festival in support of funding for arts education. (See neighborhoods.org’s Flickr album for more photos.) I blogged about this a couple of…
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for weeks, ever since I received a brochure in the mail about the conference. The image on the front of the brochure made…
I didn’t realize it but Ray ‘Jake’ Jacobson’s ‘Harvest’ sculpture was placed on the Water St. promenade yesterday around noon. Jake told me back in August that it would…
A few years ago, when I served on the EDA, we invited Geralyn Sheehan to present the concept of Asset-Based Community Development. “Community development” is a rather catch-all term which…
Yesterday morning I ran the DJJD 15 K. I’m pretty sure it’s the 17th or 18th year in a row that I’ve run it. I first ran this race a…