Did you enjoy the warm weather on Sunday? Hold those memories close as we are under a Winter Storm Warning through Tuesday night. According to Ron Trenda at MPR, Minneapolis will see more snow tomorrow than today. Minneapolis is forecasted to get 1-2 inches of snow today and 4-6 inches tomorrow. Check your favorite local weather source for any updates to snow totals. Temps will be in the 10s for the rest of the week.
Charlie, Andrew and I visited Stevens Square on Friday, which was our first stop on our neighborhood listening tour. If you're on Instagram, follow us at @swvoicesmpls and watch our Instagram story highlighting our neighborhood tour. Some food/beverage news that we want to share from our tour:
- According to some workers we ran into, Tibet Kitchen on Nicollet Ave. is permanently closed, as of a week ago.
- Starting today, Boiler Room Coffee on 3rd Ave. is going back to its regular hours, 6:30 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 7 a.m.-5 p.m. weekends.
- Andrew thoroughly enjoyed his shrimp boil at Cajun Boiling.
Education Minnesota, the umbrella union that includes the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, nominated two Minneapolis educators for its Teacher of the Year Award. Edward Barlowe, a music teacher at Anwatin Middle School, and Aberdeen Rodriguez, an English teacher at Edison High School, were nominated alongside 75 other educators. The winner will be honored at the Minnesota Teacher of the Year banquet in May.
Counselor Janetter Vyhanek from Anwatin Middle School was also named the Minnesota Middle School counselor of the year by the Minnesota School Counselor Association. Last week, MFT teachers and education support professionals voted overwhelming to authorize a strike if union contract negotiations continue to stall with the district.
LINK ROUNDUP
Hennepin County is running a plastic-free challenge throughout February and is sending out participants cool resources like a vintage, Mr. Rogers-esque tour of the recycling plants. It's not too late to sign up or peruse the site for a wide array of ways to curb your plastic usage. (Hennepin County)
A local Quaker shared how his community has responded to policing in Minneapolis. (Southside Pride)
Condo building garage floods near the Southwest Light Trail project. And yep, this is the same condo building that has cracks in it. (Star Tribune)
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Metro Transit continues to offer its Transit Assistance Program. Residents who have a lower income can ride transit for $1, even during rush hour, with a full 2.5 hour transfer.
Minneapolis Public Schools has funding for Twin Cities-based community organizations with culturally based programming to support MPS students this August. Organizations need to submit their ideas by Feb. 28.
The Just Deeds project offers free services to help property owners remove racial covenants from their properties’ legal title. Even though there is a waitlist for property to be considered, homeowners are still encouraged to apply. You can access the map of properties with racial covenants here.
OUT & ABOUT
a Bird in Hand is collaborating with Jordan Kinsel from Cardamom for a pop-up at St. Genevieve tonight.
A personal recommendation to see the exhibit, Human Toll: A Public History of 35W, at the Hennepin History Museum in Whittier. The exhibit explores community resistance/resilience and illustrates how freeway construction destroyed and divided Black communities across the United States, amplifying the effects of systemic racism that are still felt today.
Part of the "Human Toll" exhibit, artwork made by Clara Barton Open School students in 2020, in response to the history of 35W.
