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Dayton’s
Bluff Neighborhood Cleanup
Saturday, September 9, 2006
9:00 a.m. to noon
Ray Anderson & Sons
North of East 7th St. at
Atlantic and Phalen Corridor
(933 Atlantic)
This cleanup is for Dayton’s
Bluff residents only.
Entrance: $7 per
car, $10 per small truck or
mini van, $25 per pickup truck.
No dump trucks.
Extra Fees: $15 per
mattress, box spring, couch or love seat.
$3 fee car tire, $8 per
truck tire, plus $2 if on rim.
$10 to $25 per TV, $10 VCR or computer monitor or
CPU,
etc.
$5 other small
electronics.
No Charge - Fluorescent
bulbs and ballasts
All guidelines will be strictly
adhered to and we reserve the right to turn away any person or vehicle.
The Dayton’s Bluff Community Council reserves the right to refuse any
item or close the site early if costs exceed budget.
What to bring
A proof of Dayton’s Bluff
residency in the form of a driver’s license or utility bill is required
to gain entry. Be prepared to unload your own materials.
Assistance is not available at the cleanup site. Materials will
be sorted at the site into different dumpsters to maximize recycling.
In order to simplify unloading,
vehicles should be loaded up in the following manner: On the
bottom of the load: concrete, bricks, rocks, and construction
debris.In the middle of the load:
bikes and scrap metals, mattresses/box springs, broken furniture and
other trash. On the top of the load: reusable
household items, electronics: TVs, VCRs, computers, etc., tires and
fluorescent bulbs and ballasts.
Remember: DO NOT bring
appliances to the cleanup. Call JR’s Appliance at 651-454-9215 before
Thursday, September 7, to arrange to have your appliances picked up at
your curb on Monday, September 11. Cost $25 for one appliance, $10 for
each additional appliance. There is extra fee of $10 for each air
conditioner ($35.00).
What not to bring
Not
all materials are accepted at the cleanup.
For more information about how
to recycle or dispose of these or other items,
call 651-222-SORT (7678). TTY for the hearing impaired
651-221-9832.
No Rail Road ties or Chemically
treated wood. No
Appliances: Call JR’s Appliance at 651-454-9215 before
Thursday, September 8, to arrange to have your appliances picked up at your curb on
Monday, September 11. Cost $25/1st appliance, $10/each
additional appliance (there is an $10 surcharge for each air
conditioner). JR’s Appliance accepts air conditioners,
dehumidifiers, dishwashers, dryers, furnaces, garbage disposals,
heat pumps, microwaves, refrigerators, stoves, trash compactors,
washers and water heaters. No Car
Batteries: Bring care batteries to a store that sells them. All
stores and services stations that sell car batteries are required by
law to accept up to five batteries per person for free. No Paint,
Pesticides, Motor Oil or other Hazardous Wastes: Free disposal
at Ramsey County household hazardous waste drop-off site: Bay West, 5
Empire Drive, Saint Paul, open Wednesday-Friday 11-6 and Saturday 9-4
(April-October) and Saturday 9-4 only (November-March) No
Leaves, Grass or Brush: Free disposal at Ramsey County compost
site: Frank Street and Sims Avenue, open Monday, Wednesday and Friday
11-7, Saturday 9-5 and Sunday 11-5. No Curbside Recycling Materials:
Dayton’s Bluff District 4 curbside recycling is picked up every
Tuesday. Have your Recycling at the curb by 7 am.
Good Free Stuff at the
Cleanup
Even if you
do not have junk or trash to get rid of come and check out the Free
Stuff. Swap Stuff. The cleanup will once again feature a Reuse
Area so that used items that still have some life left in them can be
shared with new owners. Good stuff like dishes, furniture,
building materials, cabinets, lawnmowers, bikes, toys and other items
in good condition will be set aside in the Reuse Area for anyone to
take home. All materials in the Reuse Area are free and there is
no charge to enter this area. Items must be hauled
away from the Free Stuff area by noon on cleanup day or it all goes in
the dumpster. So bring your car or truck..
Volunteers are Needed
Help neighbors clean up the neighborhood. All skill levels are
needed. Work four hours and get free entry for one load of
material. A free lunch will be provided. Call 651-772-2075
if you would like to help
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Sponsors and Rules
The Cleanup is sponsored by the Dayton’s Bluff Community Council and
the Eureka Recycling, with funding provided by the city of Saint Paul.
The above guidelines will be strictly adhered to. The Dayton’s Bluff
Community Council reserves the right to turn away any person or
vehicle, to refuse any item or to close the site early if dumpsters are
filled or costs exceed budget. There
will be limited senior pickup. Call the Dayton’s Bluff Community
Council at 651-772-2075 to register or for more information.
Community Council Seeks
Board Members
The Dayton’s Bluff Community Council is looking for new
board members. Do you want to make a difference and work on
neighborhood issues? Can you attend two meetings per month, and
like to meet other people working to make Dayton’s Bluff a better place
to live? This opportunity maybe just right for you!
Benefits of serving as a board member for the Dayton’s
Bluff Community Council include: you can make your voice and input
count; you have the opportunity to network with other great people from
the neighborhood; you can learn about neighborhood issues, participant
in Dayton’s Bluff Activities, and it provides a great reference for
future opportunities.
Criteria for serving as a board member: Must be at
least 18 years old, live or own property or operate a business in
Dayton’s Bluff, care about making our neighborhood better, and
have interest in working on improving it. The filing deadline is September 18th at
7:00 pm.
Election for new board
members is Monday, October 16, 2006. If you are interested
in coming on board or would like more information and filing forms,
please call 651-772-2075.
Koj thiaj li yuav pab tau.
Xav tau koj tuaj ua ib tug npauj.
Lub koom haum Dayton’s Bluff Community Council xav tau koj
kev pab yog tias koj muaj sij hawm tuaj sab laj ob zaug ib lub hli twg,
muaj lub siab pab thiab xav ntsib lwm cov neeg.
Kev zoo rau yus yog yus tau ua ib tug npauj. Yus tej tswv yim thiab kev
pom zoo muaj nuj qhi, muaj sij hawm ntsib lwm cov neeg zoo nyob rau
ntawm thaj chaw no thiab, muaj kev kawm txog tej teeb meem nyob ntawm
lub zej zog los yog thaj chaw, kawm txog kev dhia koom haum, thiab yus
kuj siv tau yus txoj kev pab no mus nriav dej num lawm yav tom ntej
thiab.
Kev xaiv tsa ua npauj no muaj xws li: Yus yuav tsum muaj hnub yug
18 xyoo, nyob rau ntawm thaj chaw hu ua Dayton’s Bluff los yog muaj vaj
muaj tsev los yog muaj lag luam nyob rau ntawm thaj chaw, muaj siab pab
thiab txawj txog thaj chaw nyob, thiab yus yog ib tug neeg muaj cwj pwm
zoo.
Hnub xaiv tsa yog hnub
Monday tim 16 lub 10 hli ntuj, xyoo 2006. Yog koj xav tuaj
ua ib tug npauj no, thov koj hu rau tus xov tooj yog
651-772-2075. Yog koj xav paub txog ntxim lub koom haum cov dej
num thov koj mus saib nws hauv Internet, www.daytonsbluff.org.
El Dayton’s Bluff District
Four Community Council es una organización de ciudananos que
anima la participación y el sentimiento de comunidad del
vecindario de Dayton’s Bluff.
El Dayton’s Bluff Community Council aboga por los derechos
de la gente de la comunidad, da una vía de decir al gobierno los
intereses de los ciudadanos e aconseja al gobierno de las cuestiones
del vecindario. El Council educa al público, sin embargo
él depiende de que el público colabore activamente en la
definición de lo que es importante a la comunidad. Las
reuniones son abiertas al público para que él pueda
expresar sus opiniones. Las reuniones tienen lugar los segundo y
tercero lunes del mes a las 7 p.m.
El Dayton’s Bluff District Four Community Council se
compone de gente del vecindario, y todos ciudadanos adultos viviendo en
District 4 tienen derecho de ser miembro. Después de las
elecciones, un miembro sirve durante un periodo de dos
años. Cualquier persona que desea servir la comunidad debe
ponerse en contacto con la oficina del Council para informarse de las
elecciones próximas.
El Dayton’s Bluff Community Council se esforza por
realizar adecuadas viviendas, una mejora de educación, jardines
y parques públicos, un comercio mejor y más variado, y
buenas oportunidades artisticas y de recreo para los vecinos.
Las elecciones
tendrán lugar en Octobre 16, 2006. El Dayton’s
Bluff Community Council está en 798 E. 7th St. Teléfono:
(651) 772-2075.
Last Call - Small Business
Training
There are still a couple openings for the Dayton’s
Bluff Neighborhood Entrepreneur Class starting at the end of
September. This program helps start-up and young businesses on
the East Side. All East Side entrepreneurs are welcome.
Class training lasts approximately 8 weeks and includes
topics such as operations management, marketing, financial management,
one to one assistance with creating a successful business, and
preparing a business plan, plus 8 hours of one on ones with the
instructor. Those who successfully complete the course and locate
their businesses in target neighborhoods are eligible for ongoing
business support services.
Some of the businesses that people who took the course
have started include graphics, photography, food service, restoration
of wood furniture and works of art, custom floral design for weddings
and events, and exterior and interior painting.
The course is sponsored by the Dayton’s Bluff Community
Council and the Neighborhood Development Center. There is a small
registration fee based on a sliding fee scale. The next session
will start in September and class size is limited. Please call
Karin at 772-2075 for an application.
Dayton's Bluff Community Meeting
The next Community Meeting is Thursday, September 7, 2006 from
6:30
to 8:00 p.m. in the meeting room at the Dayton’s Bluff Community
Council, 798 East 7th Street at the corner of 7th and Margaret.
The Dayton’s Bluff Community Council holds the Community
Meeting monthly. It is designed to work with block clubs and
neighborhood residents on problem properties, including criminal,
nuisance behavior and code enforcement issues as well as other
neighborhood issues, concerns, and improvements.
All Dayton’s Bluff residents are welcome. If you need more
information call Karin at 651-772-2075..
East Side to Host Annual
Festival
Looking for a fun way to celebrate the fall or
make “back-to-school” not feel like a bummer? An exciting new
tradition, on the East Side, will kick off this September with the
“East Side Family Festival.” The first annual festival will
be held on Saturday, September 9th from 10:00AM to 2:00PM. This will be
a fun filled event that celebrates the families of the Dayton’s Bluff
area and its surrounding neighborhoods. Families can come and
enjoy entertainment, play games, make art projects, participate in
carnival activities and eat!
The idea for the festival came about from the shared
mission of its two sponsor groups, First Lutheran Church and the Young
Artists Initiative (YAI). Both groups have a mission of bringing
families in the East Side closer together and strengthen the community
and thought that an annual celebration, such as this, would be the
perfect way to do it! The event is completely free and open to
the public, so make sure that you mark it on your calendars. All
the activities will take place on the courtyard at First Lutheran
Church at 463 Maria Avenue. If there is rain, the activities will
be moved into the churches banquet hall, so come rain or shine.
If you are interested in volunteering, donating your
talents or if your business would like to participate, please contact
the Young Artists Initiative Information line at 651-222-KIDS (5437) or
First Lutheran Church at 651-776-7210.
September at the Mounds
Theatre
Starting Gate Productions opens its second season at the
Mounds Theatre this September with “A View from the Bridge” by Arthur
Miller.
Love, jealousy and pride consume a New York longshoreman
and his family in this tragic portrait of mid-century immigrants from
one of our foremost playwrights.
This play is directed by Jodi Kellogg and features the
talents of Bruce Abas, Robert-Bruce Brake, Anthony Brown, Grant
Henderson, Benjamin Layne, John Lilleberg, Jennifer Paige, Mary Jo
Pehl, David Otto Simanek, Andy Waldron and Larry Waterman.
Performances are September 8 - October 1, 2006; Fridays
and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday Matinees at 2:00 p.m.
There is an ASL and Audio Described Performance on Sunday,
September 24.
Tickets are $18 general, $16 students and seniors. Call
for tickets at 651-645-3503.
Pay What You Can Night is Monday, September 18.
All Performances are at the Mounds Theatre, 1029 Hudson
Road in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood just east of downtown
Saint Paul.
Sacred Heart Latin-American
Fiesta
Sacred Heart Latin-American Fiesta
Fiesta Latino Americana del Sagrado Corazon
840 East Sixth Street
St. Paul, MN 55106
Sunday/Domingo
September/Septiembre 10, 2006
10: a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Fun…Fun…Fun…Diversion…Diversion
Second Hand Store – Tienda de Segunda Mano
American & Mexican Food – Americana & Mejico Comida
Gambling – Juego
Children’s Games – Premios
para Juegos de Ninos
Questions? – Preguntas?
651-776-2741
New
Art Exhibit at Metro State
Metropolitan State University Third Floor
Gallery is pleased to present Folk Nouveau, featuring art by five
Minnesota artists—Beth Barron, Minneapolis, Dean Lucker, Saint Paul,
Judy Onofrio, Rochester, Douglas Padilla, Minneapolis, and Ann Wood,
Saint Paul.
The exhibit opens Thursday, Sept. 7 with a reception from
4–7 p.m. The exhibit continues through Friday, Sept. 29.
Gallery hours are Mondays–Thursdays, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.; Fridays–Saturdays,
11 a.m.–4 p.m. The gallery is located in the Library
and Learning Center, 645 East Seventh Street, Saint Paul.
The artists of Folk Nouveau are a far cry from the
traditional notion of folk artists. They are not uneducated or
isolated. Rather, they are informed citizens of the world working
in a visual and tactile format. What they share is an
appreciation for a humble hand and everyday materials.
For example, Baron embroiders domestic textiles that may
be small in scale, but relay monumental sentiment. Band-Aids,
handkerchiefs and duct tape tell stories of personal and communal
grief. These works are not without beauty or an inkling of
optimism, for they are often embellished with elegant threads and glass
beads that seduce the eye.
Onofrio’s figurative sculptures, which reflect events in
the artist’s life, are encrusted with what others might consider to be
debris of a consumer society. Bits of vintage jewelry, bottle
caps, pottery shards and other oddities provide rich textures for her
whimsical works.
Wood and Lucker find inspiration in the work of
Mid-Western folk artists and low-tech animated toys and games.
When working as a team, they craft kinetic objects, which are playful
and engaging. They allow people to rekindle their childhood
imaginations. As individual artists they conjure emotive works
that are often technically sophisticated.
Padilla’s raw and energized paintings often address his
Norwegian and Mexican heritage. His ethnic background is evident
in the iconography and palette he chooses. His work is adorned
with surprising and accessible media. Anything from spray foam
insulation to architectural fragments make their way into Padilla’s
work.
For more information, contact Erica Rasmussen, gallery
director, at 651-793-1631.
Metropolitan State University, a member of the Minnesota
State Colleges and Universities System, is the only state university in
the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Walk, Don't Run Your Way to
Better Health, a Cleaner Neighborhood and a Nifty Tee Shirt
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Photo by Karin DuPaul
Members of the Dayton’s
Bluff Good Neighbor Walking group, joined here by Councilperson Kathy
Lantry, gathering before the Saturday, July 22nd walk. The group meets
every other Saturday at 9:00 a.m. and walks around the neighborhood
picking up trash along the way. Saint Paul/Ramsey County Public Health
Steps Program donated Irish green tee shirts for participants of the
Dayton’s Bluff Good Neighbor group. The next walk is September 2nd. If
you are interested in joining the group or have questions call Jay at
651-251-4806.
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Mounds
Park Restoration Event
Indian Mounds Park Restoration
Saturday, October 7
8:30 a.m. – Noon
Earl Street & Mounds Blvd
Volunteer and be part of important work to restore land in
the metro area!
Help Great River Greening remove invasive buckthorn and
plant oak trees in Indian Mounds Park this fall. Located within the
Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, the Park contains one
of the few surviving remnants of native oak savanna in the river
valley.
Our work will begin the savanna restoration and enhance
habitat for rare plant species. Mounds Park is the on-the-ground
kick-off for Greening’s Million Acorn Campaign, a five-year
community-based effort to restore oak savannas and forests throughout
the Twin Cities. Saint Paul Parks and Recreation and the National Park
Foundation are event partners. Tools, work gloves, breakfast and lunch
will be provided. This event will be the largest of our fall
season,
Individuals, families with supervised school-age children,
and groups of any size are welcome to participate.
Pre-registration is required.
You can register online at www.greatrivergreening.org
under “Volunteer” or contact the Greening Volunteer Event Coordinator,
Tessa Pinkstaff, at 651-665-9500 ext. 11 or
tpinkstaff@greatrivergreening.org.
Funded by the Mississippi River Fund of the National Park
Foundation
Dayton's
Bluff Home Restoration Effort Wins Saint Paul Heritage Preservation
Award
By Steve Trimble
“Love reveals beauty in old house” read a Pioneer Press
headline on May 17, 2006. The Nelson home at 653 North Street was one
of the projects featured at the recent St. Paul Heritage Preservation
Awards. This is the sixteenth annual recognition of worthy efforts
given out by the St. Paul Heritage Commission, a group charged
with protecting and preserving the heritage of St. Paul.
For this particular honor, the Heritage
Preservation Committee and the St. Paul chapter of the American
Institute for Architects presented the Nelsons with a special “Vote of
Confidence” award for all of their work. The city reporter who covered
the event only had room to say a little about the Dayton’s Bluff
family. Here is some of the rest of the story.
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Above: Tom Nelson working on 653 North
Street. Below left: 653 North before the renovation began.
Below right: The same house today.
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Thomas and Kristenza Nelson were residents of the
Macalester-Groveland neighborhood when a 1998 fire destroyed the house
they were leasing. It proved very difficult to find another rental
space that would let them have their 110 pound German Shepherd. They
house sat for a while, but were constantly looking for a place of their
own.
Kris admits that at the time they had never heard of
the area she now proudly calls home. Then while surfing the internet,
her husband ran across the Upper Swede Hollow Neighborhood Association
web site that had listings for a few houses in need of owners. She’d
never even heard of the neighborhood.
It didn’t seem to be on any of the maps they looked
at. But, as Kris remembered, “We were really scrambling for a
place to live” so they decided to visit. When they did, they
liked “the kinds of grass roots things that were
happening.” But when the couple strolled through Swede Hollow
Park and looked up at the Victorian structure as it reflected the
evening sunset, they knew that it was the only place for them.
In a swift timeline that amazed their friends, they were
soon owners of an 1889 Queen Anne style house. It needed a lot of work,
but they were ready to take it on. “We came with the keys and
each other and a bottle of champagne,” Kris
remembered. They started peeling up old carpet the
first night they were in their new home.
Kris remembers a good
feeling about the place from the beginning. The sense was reinforced
when they were closing on the property. They found out that the
firefighter who had been first on the scene when their former rental
house went up in flames had grown up in the North street house.
“Without trying to sound hokey,” she remarked, “it seemed like we were
meant to be there.”
They were going to have to do a lot of work to
make the building into their dream house. They loved nice woodwork, but
most of it on the lower floor had been stripped out and replaced.
Kris has coined a name for what happened to the old home. It had been
“Menardized,” and needed a lot of restoration.
Kris and Tom did much of the work themselves,
with some welcome help from family and friends. The efforts ranged from
general clean up and painting to tearing the asbestos siding off of the
three story structure. A major project was building a new front porch
to bring back the structure’s original look.
One early surprise was discovering a hidden stained
glass window that had been concealed by interior and exterior sheets of
plywood. It was so old and dirty that they couldn’t see much but then
there was a second part to the surprise. When it was cleaned off they
discovered that the glass was primarily green, yellow and purple—the
colors that they had earlier chosen for their exterior paint.
Kris took a little time off when the couple had
their first child. Shortly after the birth of a second child, tragedy
struck 653 North Street. Thomas unexpectedly died in his sleep of
a heart attack in January of 2006. He was only thirty-five years old.
Sometimes after such an event, people decide to move
away to avoid bad memories. Not so for Kris, who believed their
family’s love was clearly intertwined with the house “Through
everything, it is this house that has sustained us. I feel all of the
work Tom put into it.”
Kris is now a stay-at-home mom of sorts;
however, she does work part time, mostly as a free lance photographer
with a degree from Minnesota College of Art and Design. A
personal love of growing things has also led to some small jobs doing
landscape work for other people.
She does a lot of her own work at night with outdoor
lights after the kids are sleeping and jokingly remarks that in the
neighborhood she is known as “the midnight gardener.”
Kris also has a darkroom in the house and has been doing a
lot of photography in the area, focusing currently focusing
on Swede Hollow Park.
Historic St. Paul, a group that advocates for preservation
of older homes, has been a big help. The Nelsons received one of
their matching grants that help people pay for exterior
restoration. But beyond the financial assistance, “It was just
nice to have the support of the group,” Kris states. “It’s a little
scary as a home owner to undertake this kind of work. They help you
negotiate all the hurdles.” She thinks they are “great with their
outreach and making revitalization accessible, including having fliers
in three languages.
In the Pioneer Press article, Kris Nelson praised the
city’s efforts to retain and restore older housing stock. She had
participated in some old siding tear-offs before coming to Dayton’s
Bluff, but never dreamed that she would get involved in such a major
effort herself. “It really is such an important program and such
an important thing in this neighborhood.” The community “has really
become better as we go backward.”
Kris also never dreamed that she would get a big award.
“It was a total surprise.” She had received a few small awards for her
volunteer work, including helping design and build local rain gardens.
But attending the program at the Landmark Center and being recognized
by city elected officials was a thrill.
Kris does not agree with the people who say that a
sense of neighborliness can’t be found in big cities. “There are so
many young families here,” and they made them feel welcome. One
example she loves to point out is that they were invited to inherit a
tree house from the nearby Carey household.
Whenever time permits, the house restoration proceeds.
Painting is an ongoing project, with the goal of doing one side of the
house a year. Kris is working on the second coat on one section. Right
now the kids are a little too young to use a brush. Andreas is
two and a half and his younger brother Alexander is a little over one
year old.
With them in mind, Kris is determined to complete the
work. “Community is just so important,” she often says. “This is such a
great neighborhood… I can’t imagine raising my kids anywhere else.”
Business Blogging on the
Bluffs #3
. You’ve decided your purpose for your blog. To
develop a more personal contact with customers? To build a new
customer base or try going international? Another thing you can
do is to use your blog to develop new revenue lines. (Down the
road, I’ll discuss how this can be done.) Whatever your reason,
it will determine if you need to be highly ranked, or not, by search
engines. For the sake of this article, I’m assuming you want the
ultimate Search Engine Optimization. There are some techniques
you can use to help you become ranked highly.
As always, you want to write good content in your blog
postings. Make people want to read what you have to say.
That said, there are concepts you can use to change your ranking
significantly. It’s important to use the best keywords and
phrases possible. What sounds better to you, “A beautiful yard”
or “A thick, lush carpet of deep green grass”? This gives the
search engines a number of keywords, and phrases to choose from.
Think of words, and phrases, that people will use when doing
searches. Periodically, check keyword popularity by searching for
different, but similar, words and phrases.
The length of your posts can make a difference. A
minimum of 250 is the standard. Although, you don’t always need
lengthy posts, you want to have several paragraphs of naturally keyword
rich content. Also, you want to put the keywords, as close to the
top of posts as you can.
Need Recycling Bins?
You can pick up recycling bins at 798 East 7th Street at
the corner of 7th and Margaret. Call 651-772-2075 to be sure someone is
in the office.
Curbside recycling pick
up is Every Tuesday. Have your recycling on the curb by 7:00 a.m.
Dayton's Bluff Garden Tours
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Top: Garden Tour in the Conway and Arcade
area. Bottom: Garden Tour in the 5th and Forest area.
Photos by Karin DuPaul
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Church
Directory
Amazing Grace Assembly of God
1237 Earl St.
651-778-1768
Sun 9:30 am - Sunday school all ages
Sun 10:30 am - morning Worship
Sun 6:00 pm - evening Worship
Hmong Asbury United Methodist
815 Frank St.
651-771-0077
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
655 Forest St.
651-776-4737
Sun 9:00 am - Morning Service
Sun 10:15-11:15 am - Sunday School & Bible Hour
Sun 11:15 - Hmong Service
Faith Temple - Templo De Fe
1510 Payne Ave
651-778-0096
Sun 10:30 am - Spanish Bilingual Service
Sun 6:00 pm – Spanish Bilingual Service
Wednesday family night
First Lutheran Church ELCA
463 Maria
St. Paul, MN 55106
651-776-7210
1 block North of Metropolitan State University
Sun
9:00 am – Worship service
Sun 10:15 am - Education for all ages
Fellowship following Worship
Handicapped accessible
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Mounds Park United
Methodist
1049 Euclid St.
651-774-8736
9:15 am - Sunday School, 4-year-old through Adult
10:30 am - Worship
Our Savior’s Lutheran
‘LCMS’
674 Johnson Pkwy
651-774-2396
Sun only - 8am Worship, 9:20 education hour
Sun 10:45am - Worship
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
840 E. 6th St.
651-776-2741
Sat 4:00 pm – Mass
Sun 9:00 am – Mass
Mon, Wed, Fri 8:00 am – Weekday Service
St. John’s Catholic Church
977 E. 5th St.
651-771-3690
Mon-Fri 8:00 am – Mass
Sat 8:00 am & 4:15 pm - Mass
Sun 9:00 am, 11:00 am - Mass
St. John’s Church of God in
Christ
1154 E. 7th St.
651-771-7639
Sun 9:30 am - Sunday School
Sun 11:00 am - Worship
Wed 7:00 pm - Bible Study
St. John Ev. Lutheran
765 Margaret St.
651-771-6406
Sun 9:30 am - Worship
Thurs 6:30 pm - Worship
Worship times are subject to
change. Please call ahead to confirm.
St.
John's Celebrates 120th Anniversary in Dayton's Bluff
St. John’s Catholic Church at 977 E. 5th St. is
celebrating its 120th anniversary in 2006. Archbishop Harry Flynn
will officiate at the anniversary Mass on Saturday, October 28.
Other activities are also in the planning stages for that weekend.
St. John’s would like to hear from former parishioners,
students, staff, teachers, clergy and anyone else who has memories or
memorabilia of the Church or school, or would just like to be included
in the anniversary festivities. Call Carol in the church office
at 651-771-3690.
Watch for more information about the anniversary
celebration in local newspapers or visit the St. John website at
www.stjstp.org.
Young
Artists Initiative's "James and the Giant Peach" Production a Hit
By Nathaniel Churchill,
The Young Artists Initiative’s (YAI) summer production of
Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story, James and the Giant Peach, was a
big success and its cast has something to be very proud of. The
production featured nineteen youth actors from the East Side, as well
as its surrounding neighborhoods. The cast was enrolled in YAI’s
summer program called the “Summer Theater Experience.” In this
program, students spent five weeks participating in theater workshops
and rehearsing a full-scale production. While in the program the
young actors learned such things as improvisation, creating character
voices, using their bodies to create believable characters, theater
terminology and even how to make costumes.
The highlight of the five weeks was to mount an actually
fully designed production and supported production that ran for the
last two weekends of August. The students also had the privilege
to be the very first theater company to perform in the brand new
Neighborhood House Theater located in the Paul and Sheila Wellstone
Center for Community Building on the Westside of Saint Paul. The
show’s director, Jefferson Fietek, said, “the new theater space is
perfect for the work we do. Even when you walk into the lobby the
artwork and the design celebrates the diversity of our community and
the youth we are trying to reach. Also, every seat in the theater
makes you feel a part of the action!”
An Opening Night Fundraiser Gala kicked off the Young
Artists Initiative’s production . The evening was full of
entertainment, food and a silent auction. Fietek was pleased by
the organizations that stepped up to help out with such organizations
as the Twins, the Vikings, the Timberwolves, the Thunder, the Swarm,
the Chanhassen Dinner Theaters, the Children’s Museum, and the Actors
Theater who produces the inter-active hit “We-Gotta-Bingo.” The
YAI is run by all volunteers, so the money raised through ticket sales
and the Gala went to support student scholarships and support future
youth programming.
The organization is not taking a break however now that
this show is closed. They are already gearing up for an
interactive Halloween show based on the children’s story “The Witches”
that will open in October. To learn more about them and the work
they do, you can explore their website at www.youngartistsmn.org.
More
Memories of Mrs. Jilk
By Randy Garcia.
Mrs. Jilk was my Kindergarten Teacher at old Sibley
Elementary for the school year 1969-1970.
I have thought often of Mrs. Jilk over the years.
She impacted me in a way very few educators, no let me say, people ever
have. For me there was an unconditional acceptance that exuded from
her. In her presence you understood that you were ok.
As I look back to that time I recall making butter from
whipping cream, visiting a farm for a field trip, taking naps on
a braided rag rug, developing my first friendships outside of my
immediate neighborhood, missing her when we had the occasional
substitute, and most important to me - looking forward to each
day of school.
I currently live in Martinsville, VA. Many miles and
many years removed from 1960’s East 6th Street. I do not know
what prompted me to conduct a “Google Search” this evening for Mrs.
Jilk. But I am glad I did. Please extend to her my
heartfelt thanks for the acceptance she extended to one student so many
years ago.
Area
Resident Graduates from Law School
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| Left to right: Brother
Nick, Father Greg, Dan in graduation regalia and Mother Linda
after the ceremony at Valparaiso Law School. |
Dan Stahley, the son of Dayton‘s Bluff residents
Greg and Linda Stahley, recently graduated from law school. He grew up
on Maria Street in the Mounds Park area with two brothers. Dan
attended Harding High School where he played basketball and won awards
for his mastery of the French language. He graduated in 1999.
Stahley then went on to earn a B.A. degree from Hamline
University in the spring of 2003. He had decided he wanted to become an
attorney so that fall he entered law school at Valparisio University in
Indiana.
Why Valparaiso? Dan said he was looking for “a rural
setting near a bigger city”.
He is currently studying hard for the Minnesota bar
exam. Stahley plans to stay in the Twin Cities and hopes to start
work as a clerk for a judge or find a position with a small law firm.
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Word
From the Beat
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Photo by Karin DuPaul
Officer Jamie Sipes and his Datyon's Bluff
Beatmobile
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Greetings from SPPD Eastern District.
On behalf of the SPPD I would like to thank all of you who
participated in this year’s National Night Out. Many of you came
out in the rain to fellowship with your neighbors in park pavilions,
church basements, blocked off streets and parking lots. It was
clear to me that the residents of Dayton’s Bluff are committed to their
community. I was impressed that many of you were not deterred by
the rain and continued with your plans. What was even more
impressive was that I never heard any of those getting wet
complaining. This was a perfect opportunity to meet with old
friends in the neighborhoods and be introduced to new ones.
Speaking of new friends, many of you have by now had the
chance to meet and talk with Officer Chris Byrnes. Chris is a
senior officer on Tour 3 and has had assignments in the Patrol
Division, Motor Unit, FORCE Unit and has served as a department
trainer. Chris has now been assigned to the Dayton’s Bluff Beat
and we are lucky to have his knowledge and experience. We work
opposite shifts which will ensure a Dayton’s Bluff Beat Officer is
working each day to stay in touch with issues in the
neighborhood. If you have not met Chris yet, come out and say hi
when you see him drive by.
Before we know it the warm weather will be gone.
Make an effort to get out of your homes, take a walk with a neighbor
and remember to always treat each other with respect.
Officer J. Sipes
East District Tour 3
651-266-5565
Reflections
on an Internship at the Community Council
For the past several months
Beatrice Collins has been interning with the Dayton’s Bluff Community
Council. She went through the block club manual and helped
rewrite it, attended meetings and generally helped around the office.
As this assignment ended, she was asked to write about her life and the
impact of the internship on her personal development.
Beatrice was born in Illinois, growing up in a tough area
on Chicago’s West Side. Even as a child she had, as she put it “seen
violence unfold before me,” and observed “gangs that became an
organized crime force terrorizing neighborhoods, businesses and other
communities and schools all over the Chicago area.”
She attended George W. Collins High School, which was
located at 1313 S. Sacramento Street. Unfortunately,
Bernice “fell behind in class” but, as she put it, “I did not let that
stop me from earning a diploma.” She realized that a diploma was “very
much needed” to reach the dream of starting to “begin living at what I
call middle or average class.” Bernice ended up graduating from
night school in August, 1982, at the age of eighteen.”
She faced a lot of personal and family sadness as a
youngster. Her stepfather died in a car crash. She struggled with the
demise of her brother, Willie Round-they always called him Junior- who
died in jail from a health ailment that was not properly treated. Other
family members, including grandmothers, passed away around the same
time. As she put it: “I knew then and still know now that life is
precious with every waking moment.”
Bernice, who arrived here around 1983 in her twenties, had
heard Minnesota was a “women and kid’s state” where a person can get a
lot of support for raising families. She has been in the Twin Cities
ever since. “I love it here but I miss my family back in Chicago.
Not that I did not enjoy Chicago it’s home and always will be but I
have a new home here in Saint Paul Minnesota.”
Bernice lives in the Dayton’s Bluff area. She has three
children. Two of them are young adults in their twenties and off on
their own. Her seventeen-year-old boy is still living at home and
attends Johnson High School. She has become active in the neighborhood
and is a very active block club member, recently helping to
organize a Nation Night Out event for her organization.
Upon arrival here, “college was just a thought in my
mind,” she reflected.” Before I was not motivated enough to go beyond
high school.” But Bernice did end up getting additional
education. When Bernice decided to enter Brown College, she was
considering a career in music. “Singing is what drives me because
I love music. It is what I wanted to pursue. But I felt the
years had slipped by and that it was to late to seek that dream.”
After looking at other programs, “I thought criminal
justice would be a good area of learning because I was not as clear
about what my rights were growing up. Now I realize how
that can make a difference in one’s life.” She especially hopes
to affect “the youth of today whose minds are distrustful and corrupted
with violence in the media and elsewhere.”
“The course of furthering my education
beyond high school while in mid- forties,” Bernice remarks, “has been
one of my most challenging experiences. Even while enduring life
hardships, much was accomplished. The teaching and learning about the
criminal justice system and the Dayton’s Bluff Community Council is
where reality sinks in.”
Before interacting with these two groups she had lacked
the knowledge to make the most of her talents. These experiences
helped Bernice be more aware of possibilities and “make changes in my
life and apply what I know to those resources offered in their
neighborhood. They are there but what you do with the information
really makes a difference—it did for me.”
Bernice reflects that on turning a negative into a
positive. “Knowing what I had no knowledge of before just became a
strength that most do not recognize,” she stated. “Wants” also push “a
need for change and give a person a desire to grow and excel in a
career I never thought I would remotely pursue.”
“I had the privilege to intern at Dayton’s Bluff
Community Council.” Bernice wrote. She credits Community
Organizer Karin DuPaul with being a good role model by “demonstrating
commitment, strength, and dedication in areas I have yet to grow in.”
She also gives much credit to the staff of Brown College
“where learning is possible. When you reflect back to what you
did not imagine ever accomplishing, you realize that without the role
college and the Community Council played, along with my ambitions to
strive, none of this would have gone forth.”
Bernice leaves readers with some last thoughts when she
says “Brown College and the Dayton’s Bluff Community Council have
opened up doors of communication and opportunity for me to take the
tools I have and put them to good use. I have been in bad
situations but was able to find positive outcomes. Now I am
living what I had always only thought about. And now the journey
begins.”
A Little Rain Didn't Dampen National Night
Out
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There was magic in Dayton's Bluff on
National Night Out. The Great Brodini (Graylyn Morris) entertains
neighborhood kids with his award winning magic at the relocated Swede
Hollow National Night Out event on August 1. It was held across the
street from the park on a front porch due to rain. Photo by
Karin DuPaul
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The National Night Out event at Mounds Park
moved into the pavilion. Local Celtic band Barra put on a great
show. Photos by Karin DuPaul
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Umbrellas were everywhere at Bethlehem
Lutheran Church. The 654 Beech/Margaret Block Club holds their meetings
at the church and they work together on National Night Out each
year. Photos by Karin DuPaul
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L to R: Officer Chris Byrnes, Roy Carlson,
Beatrice’s husband, Beatrice Collins, and Officer Jamie Sipes at the
Reaney Avenue National Night Out event. Roy and Beatrice were the
organizers of this event. Officer Byrnes has joined Offiicer Sipes as
the second Dayton’s Bluff Beat Officer. Photo by Karin DuPaul
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