The Bridgeland Angler July 2008
Happy July to all Bridgelanders. Midsummer is a great time to live along the river, where we can walk, listen to music, nosh at sidewalk cafés and be dazzled by the city’s “Red, White and Boom” Fourth of July celebration, with its 10 p.m. fireworks show along the riverfront.
For more eclectic holiday entertainment, check out the fourth annual Ten-Second Film Festival, which will begin right after the fireworks in the scrubby yard behind the Soap Factory gallery at 518 SE Second St. There will be plenty of Schell’s beer (an event sponsor), hundreds of funky film fans, and dozens of teeny-tiny films to amaze and amuse you. For more information, go to www.tensecondfilmfest.org.
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Many Bridgeland residents have recently celebrated college graduations, and a few have reached me through the grapevine: in Marcy-Holmes, congrats to Maddy Bean, graduating from the University of Michigan, and Tucker Nelson, graduating from Beloit College. In Prospect Park, congrats to Carrie Klamecki, graduating from Hamline University, and Erika Rust Kuehn, graduating from the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota.
Many Bridgeland students and families have also celebrated high school graduations, including the following: From South High School, Elizabeth (Betsy) Barta, Ana Crea, Daisen Katagiri, Maya Harris and Aidan Orchard-Dick. Graduating from Great River School in St. Paul is Josh Gottlieb, one of 21 seniors in the charter school’s second graduating class.
Do you have a graduate you’d like to honor? Send me an email at
lmlincoln@comcast.net.
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Julie and Kelly Carver, proprietors of Wales House in Dinkytown, have welcomed back their daughter, Lucia, who returned in June from a year of study in Japan. Lucia, who will be starting her senior year at Patrick Henry High School in the fall, spent the last several months living in a Buddhist temple.
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In other student news, Rebecca Orrison of Prospect Park and Sara Stokowski of Marcy-Holmes are both working on a year-long project with their fellow Great River students to invent a device to measure wind speed so a farmer or small business owner in the country can decide if it makes sense to install a wind turbine. In June, Rebecca joined eight other students traveling to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to work on the project. The trip was funded by grants from the Lemelson-MIT Foundation.
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Congratulations to the Southeast Soccer Club, whose U-14 boys and U-12 girls each won first place in their divisions at the Northeast Soccer Association Tournament, June 14–16 in Maplewood. The Southeast Soccer Club is thriving, with six girls teams and nine boys teams, ranging in age from 9 to 19. The club draws students from throughout Bridgeland and beyond, including a large number of students from Seward, Marcy, Sanford and South.
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Speaking of South High, students, parents and staff will miss the services of Zylpha “Zee” Gregerson, who is moving on after working for 10 years as the parent liaison for the school. Taking over for Zee will be Julie Janes.
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Susan Warner, a marvelous ceramics artist from Seward and the lead artist at Mississippi Mud Works, 2600 31st Ave. S., has been busy working on “Greetings from Minnesota!” — a giant travel postcard that will commemorate the state’s sesquicentennial. The postcard, created with mosaic and handmade tile, will be permanently mounted on an exterior wall of the Food Building at the State Fair grounds.
To see a photo of Warner’s fabulous postcard, go to www.zencommunications.com/greetings/Greetings_from_MN.html.
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Prospect Park resident Kathie Simon Frank is also showcasing her work this summer. Her exhibit, called From My Hands and Heart: Clay Sculptures and Vessels, Costumes, Weavings and Quilts, will be on display through July 27 at the First Universalist Church Social Hall Gallery at 3400 Dupont Ave. S. Frank will be at the show to discuss her work and answer questions at 10 a.m. on July 6, 13 and 27.
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If you enjoy cool drinks and hot dance steps, join the R&R Social Club when it meets at Picosa Restaurant in Riverplace on Wednesday, July 16, 5:30–9 p.m. for a salsa evening. R&R stands for Riverside Residents, meeting and exploring great city places alongside the Mississippi. For more info, go to www.rrsocialclub.com.
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Donna Shaheen of Prospect Park United Methodist Church reports that the Rev. Chad Koppes has been appointed as the new minister at the church. His first Sunday will be June 29 with a reception to follow after the 9:30 a.m. service. Visitors are welcome!
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On Sunday, June 8, the congregation at First Congregational Church of Minnesota, UCC, in Marcy-Holmes enjoyed the premiere performance of Graduation, an organ piece created by the church’s music director, Tom Mustachio, and commissioned by long-time Marcy resident and University of Minnesota professor Roland Delattre and his wife, Judy Engel. An early version of the piece was first performed at the memorial service for Delattre, who died in April 2007.
Delattre and Engel asked for a piece drawing on Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance, writing that “we, on this plane, experience many ‘graduations’ in our maturation from infant to adult — physical, intellectual and spiritual. And . . . our ultimate crossing over into the larger all-encompassing universe is simply, but profoundly, another graduation.”
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Congratulations to the University of Minnesota Child Care Center, which was selected for a Wuzzleburg Preschool Garden Award. Each of the 75 winning preschools in the U.S. will receive $1,000 worth of gardening supplies and educational resources. The awards are funded by the National Gardening Association and Bolder Media and Starz Media, producers of the children’s television show Wow! Wow! Wubbzy.
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And finally, a big “Happy Anniversary” to Janet and Dean Lund as they celebrate their 50th anniversary this summer. Janet is one of the main reasons you’re holding this paper now, as she served for many years on the Southeast Board of Publications. It was her idea to start the Angler column for community news, which she authored with style and wit for several years. To celebrate their 50 happy years of marriage, Janet and Dean are taking their children and grandchildren on a trip to Sweden.
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Do you have community news you’d like to share? Send it to me, Linda Lincoln at lmlincoln@comcast.net. You can also call 612-379-4301.
last revised: July 17, 2008