DTN Nov 2010

November 2010

Volume 16

Number 11

Your Community News & Information Source

Time to Cast YourVOTE

ELECTION 2010:Ramsey County - District 5

Ramsey County Commissioner race - District 5

Ramsey County Dis-trict 5 includes down-town St. Paul and the West Side. DFL-endorsed incumbent Rafael Ortega is being challenged by Republican-endorsed Andy Noble. The ques-tion facing the two can-didates is whether ser-vices should be trimmed and cuts made to balance the county budget, or whether taxes should be increased to continue the current level of services. Or should there be some of both?

Andy NobleRepublican-endorsed

candidate and endorsed candidate of Minneso-tans for Limited Govern-ment

Education: Bachelor of Arts in Political Sci-ence, Master’s degree in Business Adminstration from Indiana University

Profession: Commer-cial real estate entrepre-neur with experience in property management, brokerage, development, finance and construction

“I believe in our de-mocracy, our ability to govern responsibly and openly to the public and

media, and to effectively legislate policy and deci-sions based upon constit-uency direct input and in-volvement. Lately, there has been a lack of public input, board account-ability, and transparency of all board decisions (in-cluding) ongoing spend-ing decisions, pay raises (for commissioners), and an overall lack of respon-sible governance and ac-countability to voters. Ramsey County has the highest property taxes of all seven metro coun-ties and increasing user fees. To reduce taxes, the focus needs to be on cre-ating needed jobs and at-tracting businesses to the

county and St. Paul. Lack of economic develop-ment planning has result-ed in only government jobs being created in (and by) the county. We need to prepare for the coming state budget cuts via a known $6 billion+ Minnesota state budget deficit. Creating real jobs and fixing the real estate economy and markets by lowering property taxes are the priorities. Finally, the transportation focus should be on roads and bridges.”

What are your top funding priorities and why?

• Cap for two years, (and then lower) the

highest property taxes• Ramsey County must

learn to live within its means.

• Cap commissioner pay increases

• Restructure Local Government Aid

• Consolidate some programs with the state to eliminate bureaucracy

Rafael OrtegaDistrict 5 Commis-

sioner for 16 years, DFL-endorsed

Education: Bachelor of Arts from Fordham Uni-versity in New York City, master’s degree in social work from the University

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worker for a number of years before becom-ing an outreach director for Minnesota Coun-cil of Churches; execu-tive director of CLUES (Communidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio) 1984-1994. As Commissioner, current chair of Facilities Commission, focusing on making county facilities

fuel-efficient and envi-ronmentally sound; chair of Regional Rail Author-ity, 2002-2007. Protect-ing Ramsey County’s most vulnerable residents is a stated priority for Ortega.

Achievements while in office that affect down-town St. Paul and the West Side:

• Renovation of the Union Depot should be completed by 2012, mak-

ing it a state-of-the-art transit hub for Minneso-ta and employing 2,500 to build it.

• The merger of Ramsey County 800 Mhz Emer-gency Dispatch Center with the city of St. Paul has saved taxpayers over $6 million.

• City and County Public Health and jail fa-cilities have been merged.

• Ramsey County re-mains one of only 39

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DFL-endorsed incum-bent Carlos Mariani is being challenged by Ja-mie Delton. Mariani holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Macalaster College and

works in nonprofit man-agement. He is serving his tenth term in office and is chair of the fol-lowing committees: K-12 Education Policy and Oversight; Early Child-hood Finance and Policy Division; K-12 Educa-tion Finance Division; Ways and Means.

Republican endorsed Delton has an Electronic Technology Certificate from St. Paul Technical College and a University of Minnesota Unix C++ Software Certificate. He worked at iqmarketing.com for 12 years. His positon was eliminated in September. He is most concerned about bring-ing business to St. Paul specifically to employ people and help the un-derprivileged, phasing out corporate income tax and requiring law enforcement officers to record the country of citizenship, immigration status and suspected im-migration violations of felon arrestees.

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‘Museum without walls’ brings art to the community

Susan KlemondContributor

For the Minnesota Mu-seum of American Art

(MMAA) exhibition “Ce-ramics Then/Ceramics Now,” organized recently with the St. Paul Acad-emy and Summit School (SPA), the MMAA not only showcased some of its artwork but revealed something about its own past and present.

From the museum’s past were 18 pieces from its collection, mostly ac-quired in the ’50s and ’60s. But unlike 50 years ago, the artwork for this exhibit was displayed at SPA’s Harry M. Drake gallery in St. Paul, not at a museum building.

Since shutting the doors of its Kellogg Bou-levard exhibit space in downtown St. Paul in 2009 for management and financial reasons, the MMAA has been ex-ploring ways to bring its roughly 3,700-piece permanent collection of 19th century-to-present-day American art into the community and schools. As the museum partners with other organiza-tions to develop exhibi-tions in diverse locations, what hasn’t changed is the commitment of “St. Paul’s Art Museum” to the region, education and local art, said Kristin Makholm, MMAA exec-utive director.

“I find that a very inter-esting new paradigm for a museum is not having a home, and it’s somewhat liberating,” she said. “It allows me and the mu-seum to be more flex-ible, more nimble. It al-lows us to get in front of new audiences. It allows us to build partnerships that wouldn’t be on the front burner if we didn’t have to do this. There are some wonderful things happening that have come from what many consider an unfortunate set of circumstances.”

A permanent home is still the goal but the mu-seum is taking time to gauge what people want and need, she said.

“We ultimately do want to have a foothold, a home in St. Paul,” Mak-holm said. “What that will look like and what will be in that building and how that will be or-ganized — we still have to see how things pan out.”

Operating the museum with just with one assis-tant, Makholm said that without a building she doesn’t have to constant-ly program exhibitions. And having assumed the directorship after the museum’s collection was placed in storage, Mak-holm said she’s had more opportunity to become familiar with its strengths and weaknesses.

MMAA was founded in 1894 as the St. Paul School of Fine Arts. It began collecting art in 1940. During the 1950s it organized many exhibi-tions of drawings, craft and contemporary art, and expanded its collec-tion. In 1992, the mu-seum added ‘American’ to its name to reflect an increasing emphasis on national and regional art.

Education is an im-portant component of MMAA’s mission, Mak-holm said, noting that the museum plans to increase its support and development of arts and culture in the education-al system and offer par-ticipatory programs to the community. Besides its presence in schools such as SPA, it’s working to bring parts of the col-lection into St. Paul Pub-lic Schools, she said.

As the community learns about the mu-seum’s collection, there will be more possibilities for using the art in edu-cation, said Ann Pifer, owner of the Grand Hand Gallery and a trustee for both the MMAA and SPA, who was involved in organizing the ceram-ics exhibition.

“I think when people see what’s there and how fabulous it is and the potential for using it in teaching in our schools, that will help us build support for the museum

that will carry it into the future,” she said.

MMAA has long sought to make the arts available to everyone. “That history, I think, is something that many of us who are working to support the museum are looking forward to reviv-ing and bringing back to center stage,” said Pifer.

The museum is also open to organizing ex-hibitions on the West Side and other St. Paul neighborhoods, which Makholm said have been underserved by larger arts organizations. In col-laborating on exhibitions with arts and educational organizations, the muse-um can bring its artwork to interesting spaces where it will be seen by new audiences, Makholm said.

In addition to showing ceramic works at SPA, the museum recently ex-hibited two dozen prints at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Min-neapolis. Among other exhibitions, in 2011 and 2012 Makholm plans to show nearly 30 of the museum’s best works at colleges around the state.

Exhibitions are also planned for the works of two well-known artists: painter and collage art-ist George Morrison and sculptor Paul Manship. While MMAA is dedicat-ed to promoting up-and-coming local artists and craftspeople, Makholm said she is also focusing on artists who’ve made great contributions, and contemporary artists, such as photographer Wing Young Huie.

Museum-quality art in the community is a great asset, said Robert Jewett, an art teacher at SPA who also helped organize the ceramics exhibition.

“I can’t imagine we would have this show if they had a nice building,” he said. “It’s made a huge impact on our school and other schools. It’s a way of getting art into the community that really enhances the possibilities for what a museum does and what its purpose is in

the community.”The museum is again

emphasizing its consider-able collection of craft, which is defined as ce-ramics, metal, wood and textiles.

“The direction arts and art-making is going in the future I believe is go-ing to incorporate many more crafts, people mak-ing art in all sorts of new ways,” he added. “Craft is an area we distinguished ourselves once, and we will distinguish ourselves again.”

Along with craft, what sets MMAA apart from other Twin Cities muse-ums are its regional focus and arts education for the eastern metro area, Pifer said.

“I think the museum can bring that to St. Paul in a way that is not avail-able now in other plac-es,” said Pifer.

MMAA is gaining vis-ibility not only through exhibitions but also through a noon lecture series about the mu-seum’s past and present,

held this fall at the Land-mark Center. At the Nov. 3 session, attendees can discuss the museum’s fu-ture.

Said Makholm, the MMAA is, “getting the word out to the people of St. Paul that we’re still here, that we’re doing exciting programs, that we’re moving in positive directions and that we can still be a place where people can see excellent exhibitions and get good educational programs.”

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Revamped Taste of Minnesota hard to swallow

This summer’s prom-ised “new and improved” Taste of Minnesota did not go down well with the public or the city of St. Paul, which has termi-nated its agreement with International Event Mar-keting (IEM). The festi-val’s organizers remain in debt for staffing and oth-er aspects of the Fourth of July weekend event, and owe the St. Paul Po-

lice Department $87,000 for security costs. Co-founded in the 1980s by the late civic entrepre-neur Ron Maddox, Taste had been a free event un-til this year. IEM charged $20 and $30, ostensibly to bring in fancier foods and other improvements. Attendance was down 20 percent this year and the future of the 4-day event, held at Harriet Island in recent years, remains in question.

Café Accordion to perform at the Black Dog Café

Café Accordion will perform at 7 p.m., Sun., Nov. 14, at the Black Dog Café, located at 308 Prince St. in Lowertown. The café will host a fund-raiser for the American Indian OIC at 7 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 18. An “Art and Brew” program will be held at 7 p.m., Fri., Nov. 19.

Indoor Farmers’ Market opens

Between 25 and 30 growers are expected to set up shop for the win-ter at Golden’s Deli, 275 E. Fourth St. The market is open 8-11 a.m., Sat-urdays, beginning Nov. 7, until the end of April, when the outdoor market reopens across the street. The indoor market fea-tures chocolates, jams, honey, salsa, organic dairy products, trout and breads. Meat will be sold on the sidewalk outside the deli.

Station Four hosts First Friday event

Station Four at Fourth and Sibley will host First Friday, 4-6 p.m., Fri., Nov 5. Sponsored by CapitolRiver Council/District 17, the event provides an opportunity for downtown residents to become better ac-quainted.

Renovations at Park Square Theatre

Park Square Theatre has replaced the 340 seats in its auditorium because they lacked cushion sup-port and were difficult to get out of, according to Development Director Teresa Evans. In the tech department, improve-ments have been made to the sound and lights booths. The stage has been remodeled to permit larger productions. In addition, the theater cre-ated booths for audio de-scriptions for patrons in need of this service. The theater plans to build a second space seating 142 for experimental works. When complete, Park Square will be able to produce up to 18 shows annually, which is double its current capacity.

Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary

The Bruce Vento Na-tura Sanctuary near Low-ertown will be open dur-ing the winter months for hiking, snow shoe-ing, cross-country skiing and bird watching. An audiovisual tour of the sanctuary is expected to be complete some time next year. Support for the project comes from the Lower Phalen Creek Project and the Legacy funds created by the re-cent sales tax increase.

Sidewalk saga continues

After much debate, the city of St. Paul plans to widen the sidewalk on the north side of Sixth Street between Sibley and Wacouta, making outdoor seating possible for Barrio, Bulldog and Bin Wine Bar. However, the details are not set in stone. One plan calls for widening the side-walk from 10 to 20 feet

and removing the park-ing meters on the south side of Sixth Street. The other proposed plan, pre-sented by John Mannillo of Friends of Mears Park, is a temporary sidewalk. Similar in look to a deck, it would involve plac-ing about 1,300 pieces of wood on the street, serving as a sidewalk in summer but removable for winter. Mannillo con-ducted a 5-day experi-ment with a temporary sidewalk in front of Bin Wine Bar. He estimated that three people could install the sidewalk in three days and pull it up in one day. He claims that a temporary side-walk would cost less than the $270,000 price of a permanent widening and cause less traffic disrup-tion.

Such decks are popu-lar on the East and West coasts but questions re-main for St. Paul, includ-ing who would own the temporary sidewalk and where it would be stored during the winter.

Ice rink opens this month

The Wells Fargo ice skating rink at Landmark Plaza will open at 4 p.m., Sat., Nov. 27. At 5 p.m., the Christmas tree across the street in Rice Park will be lit. Sue Gonsior of Capital City partnership said the event is patterned after the tree-lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The lights are already strung in Rice and Mears Parks and the Kellogg Mall Park. The project is a partnership between the city and Capital City partnership, with sup-port from Wells Fargo and Xcel Energy.

New at the FitzStand at Seventh and

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Zeitgeist hostsfall concert

Zeitgeist will hold its second annual fall New Music Cabaret at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 4-6, at the Northwestern Building, 275 E. 4th St. Performers include Jello Slave, Ren-egade Ensemble, Sym-phonic Transients and Jeff Lambert, guitarist. Each night a different set will be performed.

Lowry LabLowry Lab Theatre

will host the Theatre Unbound production of “Ten Virgins,” by Laura Jacqmin, Nov. 6-21. Per-formances will be at 7:30 p.m., Thurs.-Sat., and at

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Library events: from tango to Prohibition

The St. Paul Central Library Music Series will feature Astor Piazzolla’s Vision of Tango Nueva at 7 p.m., Nov. 3, at the James J. Hill Library, lo-cated next to the Central Library. A tango orches-tra and Argentine danc-ers will perform.

The “Guitar Notes from Around the World” series continues with Ital-ian and Baroque music at 2 p.m., Sun., Nov. 7 at the Central Library. Phil Rukavina will perform.

Gish Jen will read from her book, “World and Town” at 7 p.m., Mon., Nov. 15, at the Hill Li-brary. Gish is the winner of a National Endow-ment for the Arts Fellow-ship, the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and more. Her new novel

explores concepts of re-ligion, home and per-sonal worlds through the lens of Hattie Kong, a 68-year-old woman re-starting her life.

The History Book Club will discuss “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition,” by David Okrent at 2 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 18.

Skyway committee seeks applicants

CapitolRiver Council/District 17 is seeking ap-plicants for four spots on the Skyway Commit-tee, which oversees the downtown skyway sys-tem. The seven-member group reviews requests from building owners for exemptions to the rule requiring skyways to be open daily, from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. Visit www.capitolrivercouncil.org or pick up a form at the District 17 office on the skyway level of the US Bank Center.

Live jazz at FacesFaces bar and res-

taurant, located on the ground floor of Cray Pla-za at Fifth and Sibley, is hosting jazz concerts at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays, in the atrium of the plaza. Faces is the former LoTo res-taurant.

Meritage to add oyster bar

Meritage French res-taurant, located at 410 St. Peter St. on the first floor of the Historic Hamm Building, plans to expand its facilities and build an oyster bar. It will take over the space of a former ice cream and espresso shop that was lo-cated next door.

Fitzgerald Park Gifts closes

Fitzgerald Park Gifts, located in the Rossmor Building at Ninth and Robert, has closed due to lack of business. The shop, which was oper-ated by Keys Restaurant located next door, will be used for overflow seating for the restaurant.

City Passport events

City Passport senior citizen center, located on the mezzanine level of the Alliance Bank Building at Fifth and Minnesota, is offering the following activities in November:

Collector’s Road Show, 1 p.m., Fri., Nov. 5; happy birthday party, 2 p.m., Mon., Nov. 8; hymn sing, 2 p.m., Mon., Nov. 15; current events discussion, 11 a.m., Fri., Nov. 19; ice cream float social, 1:30 p.m., Fri., Nov. 19; la-dies tea, 2:30 p.m., Mon. Nov. 29; free blood pres-sure checks, Mondays at 10 a.m.; healing sounds of songs at 10:45 a.m. the second and fourth Friday. Movies shown at 1 p.m. on Thursdays in-clude: “Dick Van Dyke Show” on Nov. 4, “Jim-my Buffet in Concert” on Nov. 11 and “Bonanza” on Nov. 18.

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Your community news and information sourceS ample St. PaulChildren’s Museum

“Living in Space” is presented through Jan. 2, 2011. This interactive exhibit is inspired by the International Space Sta-tion, the largest interna-tional aerospace project ever, and teaches partici-pants about the everyday activities of astronauts.

“Japan and Nature: Spirits of the Seasons” is presented through Jan. 23, 2011. This exhibit shows the similarities and differences of each season of the year in Japan and Minnesota. Tickets are $8.95. The museum is located at 10 W. Seventh St., St. Paul. For more in-formation, call 651-225-6000.

Ordway Center for Performing Arts

“Evita” is featured through Oct. 31, at the Ordway Center for Per-forming Arts, 35 Wash-ington St., St. Paul. This performance details the life of First Lady of Ar-gentina Eva Perón, who was a legend in her time.

She rose to become the most powerful woman Latin America had ever seen and served as a sym-bol of hope and change. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s opera is the powerhouse telling of her brief and fascinating life. Tickets are $19-$39.

Contra-Tiempo, a so-cial activist dance compa-ny, will perform at 7:30 p.m., Fri., Nov. 19. The group takes Latin social dancing to new heights by infusing elements of Salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop and contemporary dance-theater in physi-cally intense and energiz-ing performances.

Tiempo Libre will per-form at 7:30 p.m., Sat., Nov. 20. Hot off its third Grammy Award nomina-tion, Tiempo Libre will present a concert of tim-ba music, a combination of Latin jazz and tradi-tional Cuban son. Tick-ets are $15-$25.

For more information, call 651-224-4222 or vis-it www.ordway.org.

History Center“Chocolate: The Ex-

hibition” is presented through Jan. 2, 2011. From rainforest treasure to luscious treat — im-merse yourself in the sto-ry of chocolate. Explore the plant, the products and the culture of choco-late through the lenses of science, history and pop-ular culture. The exhibit features experiments and hands-on activities, as well as Mayan, Aztec and 17th-century European artifacts, including items to find, make and sell this tasty treat.

“Minnesota’s Great-est Generation: The Depression, The War, The Boom” - This ex-hibit features more than 6,000-square-feet of arti-facts, interactive displays and innovative multime-dia experiences that re-veal the lives and stories of the men and women who came of age dur-ing the Depression and World War II, and who went on to create the phe-nomenal postwar boom.

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History Theatre“The Christmas

Schooner,” a holiday musical, is presented Nov. 20-Dec. 19. Heart-felt storytelling and mu-sic bring to life the story of a shipping captain who delivered Christmas trees to immigrant families of Chicago in the spirit of the holidays. It is a way to celebrate the importance of sharing traditions be-tween generations and between neighbors. Tick-ets are $28-$32 for adults and $25-$30 for seniors.

Sample Night Live, a sampling of local pro-ductions, is featured at the History Theatre at 7 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month, except February. The format fea-tures 12 acts per night, including theater, film, dance, improv, visual arts, folk and opera. The next performance is Nov. 3. Tickets are $20. The History Theater is locat-ed at 30 E. Tenth St., St. Paul. For more informa-tion, call the box office at 651-292-4323.

Science Museum“Geometry Play-

ground” is presented through Jan. 9, 2011. This exhibit will have participants climbing, building, drawing and playing to teach the ways in which mathematical principles affect how we move, see and fit things together in the world around us.

“Hubble” opens Nov. 5 in the Omnitheater. Narrated by Leonardo

“The Christmas Schooner,” a holiday musical, is presented Nov. 20-Dec. 19 at the History Theatre, located at 30 E. 10th St., St. Paul.

DiCaprio, “Hubble” of-fers a tour of the uni-verse through 20 years of astounding images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The film also shows what it’s like to repair and up-grade Hubble as the At-lantis STS-125 crew per-forms some of the most difficult spacewalks ever attempted at 17,500 mph and 350 miles above the Earth. The 45-minute film is rated G.

Museum tickets are $11 for adults and $8.50 for children ages 4-12 and seniors age 60 and older, or $17 and $14.50 respectively with admis-sion to the Omnithe-ater. Omnitheater tickets alone are $8/$7. The Sci-ence Museum is located at 120 W. Kellogg Blvd. For more information, visit www.smm.org, or call 651-221-9444.

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“Gee’s Bend” is pre-sented through Nov. 7. The performance fol-lows the Pettway women of Gee’s Bend, Ala., avid quilters who persevere through segregation, family turmoil and civil

rights. When a museum exhibits their quilts as modern art, their deeply personal stories become a celebration.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” by William Shakespeare, is presented Nov. 18, 20, 27 and 28. Weekday matinees are of-fered Nov. 16-Dec. 17. Enchantment and farce abound when four young lovers become the unwit-ting pawns of the Fairy King and Queen.

Tickets are $15-$60. The theater is located in the Historic Hamm Building, 20 W. 7th Place, St. Paul. For more information, call 651-291-7005.

Artists’ QuarterThe Artists’ Quarter,

located in the Historic Hamm Building at Sev-enth Place and St. Peter in downtown St. Paul, offers live entertainment throughout the month, including jazz bands, po-etry nights and the popu-lar B-3 organ night, held at 9 p.m. every Tuesday. For a complete schedule of events, call 651-292-1359 or visit www.artists-quarter.com.


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Downtown workers who are tired of traffic congestion and parking hassles will be happy to know there is a new com-muter service available. First Transit is now offer-ing coach service along the Rush Line, an 80-mile corridor that begins at The Union Depot in downtown St. Paul and follows Highway 61 and Interstate 35/35E north through Ramsey, Anoka, Washington, Chisago and Pine counties to Hinckley. For $3, a com-muter may book one-way fare on four morning in-bound trips and four af-ternoon outbound trips. Service includes stops at park-and-rides in Co-lumbus, Forest Lake and White Bear Township, and all stops in down-town St. Paul along the route.

First Transit was rec-ommended by the Rush Line Task Force, which has been studying options for improving transit within the corridor. Ap-proval was granted by the Metropolitan Council for this one-year $375,000 trial project. Funding is provided by Ramsey, Washington, Anoka and Chisago counties, a fed-eral grant and passenger fares. For more informa-tion, contact Metro Tran-sit at 612-373-3333 and inquire about Route 285, or visit www.metrotran-sit.org.

Lift Kids expandsLift Kids, a St. Paul-

based organization that supports the long-term needs of children and families in impover-ished villages around the world, has moved to new headquarters. The orga-nization now occupies 7,000 square feet in the

Produce Exchange Build-ing, 523 Jackson St. For more information, visit www.liftkids.org or call 651-298-9200.

‘Do the Dow’ Fall Crawl

Over 30 artists with studios in the Dow Build-ing at 2242 University Ave. are hosting a “Do the Dow” Art Crawl 6-10 p.m., Fri., Nov. 12 and noon-6 p.m., Sat., Nov. 13. Artistic media will include oil, acrylic, wa-tercolor, pastel, encaus-tic, collage, printmaking and photography, stained glass and sculpture. In addition, Drumheart, a women’s drum group, will be performing and giving demonstrations. New this year is a “trav-eling exhibition” entitled “Connections.” For this exhibit, participants trav-el to each studio to view one part of the exhibit. For more information,

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Upgraded parking meters on Wabasha Street

The city of St. Paul is testing a new parking meter system on Waba-sha Street, between Kel-logg and Sixth. By Nov. 1, 50 new meters will be operational, accepting coins, smart cards and credit cards. The City is exploring the new meters because of the increasing failure rate of electronic components in the cur-rent meters, which are 12 years old. The meters, manufactured by IPS Group, are being rented under a contract with Minneapolis for $3,350. If the City decides to em-ploy the new system, this money will be applied to the final purchase cost.

Following a six-month trial period, St. Paul Public Works will solicit feedback from users, as

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The Great Pumpkin Festival will be held 1-3 p.m., Sun., Oct. 31 at the Landmark Center, 75 W. Fifth St., in downtown St. Paul. This free family event offers everything from creepy-crawly craft making and not-no-scary story-telling to fun per-formances like Mummy Idol, Wiggle Jiggle and Jam and a magic show. There will also be candy and balloon creations from Herbie the Clown and Fritzie. Attendees are encouraged to wear cos-

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Tracing their footstepsScience Museum archeologist unveils another glimpse of the Native American culture of the Mississippi River Valley

Tim SpitzackEditor

There’s a broken piece of pottery in a store-

room in the heart of the Science Museum of Min-nesota that to the casual observer is a nondescript, drab relic. However, to Ed Fleming, curator of ar-cheology at the museum, it’s so much more. When he views this fragment, he can envision it as a bowl filled with corn. He can see a Dakota woman grinding that corn with a pestle made of bone. He

sees her surrounded by a flurry of activity: young men returning from a hunting expedition with deer on their backs, chil-dren scurrying between dome-shaped wigwams, and wood smoke hanging in the air of a temporary village on the bank of the Mississippi River that is serving as a fall residence for her tribe.

Discovering the history of the Native Americans of the Upper Missis-sippi Valley has become a passion for Fleming, who this summer led a team of archeologists

on a dig of the Ranelius site in Spring Lake Park Reserve, located west of Hastings. It’s a site the museum first became fa-miliar with in the 1950s when archeologists were shown pottery, arrow-heads and tools that were discovered by Ken Klink, who then lived in the area as a teenager. For the past five decades, the Sci-ence Museum has stored some of those artifacts in a room in the down-town St. Paul museum. Fleming took a keen in-terest in the collection

because it helps him better understand other research he has done on Native American life in the region. Since 2002, he has been studying the remains of Native Ameri-can village sites near Red Wing, which held one of the largest populations in the upper Midwest be-tween the years 1050 and 1300.

In the 1950s, the Rane-lius site was one of five major excavation projects in the Spring Lake Park Reserve area. However, little documentation was done on it. Researchers recorded their findings in journals, but the in-formation was sketchy at best. They simply collect-ed and cataloged the arti-

facts and put them away in storage. Fleming ob-tained a Legacy Amend-ment grant this year to re-visit the site and look for more evidence that pro-vides a glimpse into the lifestyle of this region’s earliest inhabitants. He assembled a team, which included a geophysicist, a research assistant and five volunteers, and began re-search in June. In July, they used state-of-the-art equipment to locate and dig for artifacts and other signs of human activ-ity, such as fire pits and

house basins. “We were looking for

evidence of human occu-pation and for pieces that put the puzzle together,” said Fleming. “It’s just a small pilot project but is part of a broader effort to understand settlement in the Spring Lake Park and Upper Mississippi areas.”

The team discovered hundreds of artifacts, including arrowheads, stone fragments and the location of a fire pit, which indicates that the area was likely a tem-porary campsite rather than a permanent village. Fleming plans to publish a report of his findings in a local archeological jour-nal and hopes to receive more funding to revisit

the site in the future. The area around the ex-

cavation site is much dif-ferent today than when Native Americans in-habited it because of the effects of the Hastings Dam, which was built in the 1930s. By study-ing maps created by the Mississippi River Com-mission in the 1890s, the team was able to see the

landscape and vegetation of the river valley prior to the construction of the dam. At that time, Spring Lake was a small lake sur-rounded by marshland. The fact that the dam caused such damage to the landscape made the area that much more at-tractive for the team to study.

Fleming holds a Ph.D.

in Anthropology, a M.S. in Archaeology and Pa-leoecology, and a B.A. in Anthropology and Art History from the Uni-versity of Minnesota. He specializes in the study of stone and ceramic arti-facts, and in the interpre-tation of archaeological materials.

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Fleming’s team spent three weeks this summer looking for Native American artifacts at the Ranelius site at Spring Lake Park Reserve.

‘We were looking for evidence of human occupation and for pieces that put the puzzle together,’ said Fleming.

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Capping Art Loan Week was a Friday night event called the Cinderella Ball. Meant as a formal dance for “all social classes,” ticket prices were low for a fundraiser ($3 per couple to dance, $1 to sit and en-joy) and with the new hall aglow with its state-of-the-art electric lighting system, the event drew over 7,000, including the governor and the mayors of both Twin Cities.

Later in the month came another big show for the new Auditorium: conductor and composer John Phil-ip Sousa and his famous band. Sousa had joined the U.S. Marine Corps Band at age 13 and rose to become its most famous conductor. The St. Paul concerts surely would reveal the Auditorium’s superior acoustic properties. The band was engaged for performances over two days, including three matinees for school children. Tickets cost 25 to 75 cents for the matinee, and 25 cents to $1 for evening performances.

The Auditorium was packed for all shows. Sousa remains famous for his march compositions but his concerts included a variety of music. That year’s ver-sion of the band featured three star performers: sopra-no Lucy Allen, violinist Jeanette Powers and cornet virtuoso Herbert Clark. The show included selections from Wagner’s “The Ride of the Valkyries” and “Sieg-fried,” Grieg’s “In The Hall of the Mountain King,” and Schubert’s “Violin Serenade.” A full band ar-rangement of the 1906 pop hit, “He Walked Right In, Turned Around and Walked Right Out Again,” drew a huge round of applause. Sousa closed with a set of his marches, including “The Stars snd Stripes Forever,” “Manhattan Beach” and “El Capitan.” The shows and the Auditorium were declared excellent. By the way, Sousa hated the new medium of phonograph records but would eventually come around.

One hundred and three years later, the University of Minnesota still wins virtual victories in football but no longer faces Carlisle or Chicago. The Carlisle Indi-an Industrial School closed in 1918. Its legacy of edu-cation and assimilation for Native Americans is mixed but its excellent football tradition is still remembered. The University of Chicago dropped football in 1939 to emphasize academics but reestablished a team in 1969 and now plays in Division III.

The St. Paul Auditorium hosted many concerts, ral-lies, Winter Carnival ceremonies, dramas, and much more. Its end finally came in 1982 when it was torn down to make way for the new Ordway Center. A 1930s Auditorium addition, now called the Roy Wilkins Auditorium, still stands on Fifth Street as the oldest part of the RiverCentre complex.

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LETTER TO THE EDITORSt. Paul’s ‘Emperors New Clothes’ saga continues

City leaders’ August ‘Rebuild St. Paul’ initiatives, apart from being aggrandized assertions after these people have been on the job for years, were also an example that St. Paul’s bar continues to be lowered.

The “Penfield/Lunds” project, now only six stories, features uninspiring architecture insultingly straddled atop and beside the neo-classical Public Safety Build-ing, designed by Clarence W. Wiggington, America’s first African American municipal architect. Also, re-moving the skyway here to ensure Lunds will never be attached to the downtown system is a mistake, par-ticularly if Target comes downtown with a grocery and skyway connection.

The West Side Flats apartments, six stories, will occupy the prime riverfront corner at Filmore and Wabasha Streets. Its lackluster design most suburbs would toss. When our “riverfront renaissance” began in 1994, St. Paul had a chance to create something re-markable. Years later, remarkable opportunities keep slipping away

The Farmer’s Market Lofts’, five stories, will be an uninspiring box for the “hole” next to this market. Leadership ignored 1,150 petition signatures seeking open dialogue and the possibility that this site might feature an indoor Farmer’s Market, affordable Artists’ Gallery Hall and corner public-square for performing artists.

St. Paul’s ‘Emperors New Clothes’ saga continues.Bill Hosko Dowtown St. Paul

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November 1907: What’s New At The New Auditorium?Don Morgan

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The 20th century was marked by continu-

ally expanding opportu-nities for entertainment. Early on, things were still very much close to home. In November 1907, St. Paul had a great new concert venue and peo-ple were happy to come downtown and take in the shows. Folks also

sweated out a modern sounding financial crisis and followed the Uni-versity of Minnesota as it went up against some football legends.

Remembered today as the panic of 1907, aka the bankers’ panic, a failed attempt to manipulate copper mining stock ex-posed many overexten-sions in some important financial institutions. The failure that Octo-

ber of the Knickerbocker Trust Company in New York led to runs on many regional banks leading to a whopping 50 percent drop in the stock mar-ket. Then as now, many blamed the crisis on Wall Street dishonesty, although a group of top financiers, led by banker J. P. Morgan, shored up the system and prevented a total collapse. The af-fair would lead to the creation in 1913 of the modern Federal Reserve System.

Fabulous FootballA little thing like a

near financial meltdown wouldn’t stop football fans from enjoying fall. In the days before any pro leagues, or any televi-sion or radio broadcasts, local college football was the closest most people could get to a big-time version of the sport.

That month the Uni-versity of Minnesota

hosted two powerhouses, each with a coaching leg-end. The University of Chicago, like Minnesota a founding member of the group then known as the Western Conference (it would not become the Big Ten until 1917), was first into town along with Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. Under Stagg, the Maroons had lost only one game the previous two years and would go on to win the conference title again the next two. A sellout crowd of about 30,000 at Northrop Field saw the game, and graph-ic displays were avail-able on chalkboards at many locations around St. Paul, wherever there was a telegraph hookup. It was an exciting game, but Chicago prevailed 18 to 12, with Minnesota scoring all its points on drop-kick field goals.

Two weeks later came the Carlisle Indians and their coach Glenn (Pop)

Warner. The Indians, fresh off a 20-point vic-tory over the University of Pennsylvania, were heavy favorites. The game was close, with Carlisle winning 12 to 10. Future Carlisle star Jim Thorpe was a fresh-man on the team, but did not play in the game. In a phrase that would be familiar to modern Go-phers fans, the University announced that the team had played so well that the loss was “virtually a victory.”

A new venueThe new concert venue

was the St. Paul Audi-torium, which opened that April. After years of fundraising and po-litical wrangling worthy of a stadium initiative, the city had a great new hall for concerts, conven-tions, etc. Located on Fifth, where the Ordway is today, the Auditorium drew rave reviews from

citizens and performers alike.

The St. Paul Arts Guild rented the facility for the first week of November for an exhibit known as Art Loan Week. Meant to promote interest in art and culture, the exhibi-tion was part art show, part history museum. Many objects of inter-est were displayed, all on loan from local owners and collectors. Included were antique furniture, rare books, historical tools and equipment, dresses, examples of Jap-anese and Samoan art, musical instruments, Na-tive American arts and crafts, lace, quilts, jew-elry, paintings and sculp-tures. Touring the entire exhibit took a couple of hours and many people came downtown to spend the afternoon checking out the show and the new Auditorium.

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