Please join us on Saturday, February 27th for the annual St. Anthony Park Progressive Dinner. It’s a great opportunity to meet your neighbors, enjoy a special meal, and have great conversations! Come alone or come with a friend! Join us at the Methodist Church at Como and Hillside for appetizers, and receive your schedule for the evening. Find the registration form here.
By Kristal Leebrick, TC Daily Planet
February 04, 2010
Katie Novotny and husband Ebba Benti will celebrate the re-opening of the Saint Paul Classic Cookie Co. next weekend at its new location, 2386 Territorial Road in Saint Paul.
The February 6 grand opening comes nearly a year after she shuttered her downtown spot in the Alliance Bank Center and began looking for a more affordable space to re-open the bakery business that she took over from her mother three and a half years ago.
"Between the decline of 50 percent of the foot traffic and skyrocketing rent, I couldn't make it work" at the downtown space, she says. They found their new location in June, but it took months of work to bring the building up to code, get the equipment they needed and tap into some creative funding to accomplish it all.
Free, at Central Lutheran Church, 333 12th Street South, Minneapolis 55404 (next to the Minneapolis Convention Center)
Find great resources for your spring and summer neighborhood projects including funding sources, project tool kits and successful project ideas from other neighborhoods. Network with volunteers from your own neighborhood and with 500 neighborhood volunteers from around the Twin Cities.
Topic Workshops on community gardening, traffic calming, complete streets, energy conservation, renewable energy, composting, rain gardens, tree planting, the emerald ash borer, transition towns, alternative currencies, and permaculture extreme makeovers for a block club, neighborhood and congregation.
We had a chance to honor three outstanding St. Anthony Park residents - Representative Alice Hausman, Ranae Hanson and Tim Wulling at this year's Honor Roll. Here's a short video capturing the highlights of the evening.
The new Energy Saver Rebate which will provide up to $10,000 back to homeowners who make qualified energy efficiency upgrades. This rebate is in addition to utility rebates and the Federal Tax Credit. All the information you need to get started is at www.thenec.org
Rebates cover 35% of the cost of the following energy improvements and are sent directly to homeowners. (Efficiency standards apply.) Eligible improvements include: attic insulation and air sealing, wall insulation, furnaces & boilers, central air conditioning, lighting, exterior doors, and replacement windows.
Due to the reduction in Local Government Aid to the City of Saint Paul, the Saint Paul Public Library has been asked to reduce its 2010 operating budget by $889,240, which is 4.8 percent. You can read more about the changes, which include reduction of hours and a 15% reduction in the collection budget, at http://www.sppl.org/news/2009/2010-budget-fast-facts.pdf. At St. Anthony Park Library, hours are proposed to be reduced from 63 total hours per week to 48.5. The proposal includes closing SAP on Sundays, opening at noon instead of 10am Mon and Wed, closing at 8pm Mon-Wed, and 5:30pm Thurs-Sat.
On Wednesday, January 6, 5:30 pm, the City Council will hold a public hearing on the qualifications and the examining committee regarding the new police chief selection process. There is also a city web page on the selection process at http://www.stpaul.gov/index.aspx?NID=3595. Included on the web page is a flyer announcing 2 community meetings in late February.
Are there sidewalks in your neighborhood that need to be shoveled? The St. Anthony Park Community Council has door-hangers that act as a friendly reminder for neighbors to shovel within 24 hours after a snow fall. The free doorhangers are available for pickup by calling 651-649-5992.
Any senior or person with disabilities in SAP can use the Senior Chore Service to find someone to shovel their walks: 651-649-5984.
We welcome Noreen Huntington as our new Senior Chore coordinator. Noreen comes to us with extensive experience in working with seniors and volunteer outreach and management. She will continue part time in her role with the Macalester Groveland Seniors working with their block nurse program.
The Chore Service is a program of the St. Anthony Park Community Council serving ten neighborhoods including St. Anthony Park. The program matches older adults (60+) and disabled individuals with neighborhood youth workers or volunteers to assist with home maintenance chores. Neighborhood youth workers are paid directly by the senior and usually negotiate a charge between $5 and $10 per hour.
Every year, each district councils nominate three people for their exceptional service to their neighborhood who are placed on the Honor Roll. The people who have been chosen to add to the Honor Roll for 2009 in St. Anthony Park:
Ranae Hanson for her perfect mix of good humor and gravity in leading the Community Council for the past 6 yrs and always focusing on the fairest solutions to issues.
Alice Hausmann for her superb leadership in the State Legislature, always focusing on the issues that unite rather than divide us.
Tim Wulling for his long-time activitism in St. Anthony Park Neighbors for Peace, and more recently, the catalyst for a group supporting environmentally responsible community living. A brilliant communicator, he advances peace and justice through email, creative skits, meticulous research, letters to editors and politicians, and letterpress-printed poetry.
Congratulations and thank you for your for all you have done.
There have been many people in St. Anthony Park who can hear the noise from the new TCF stadium during the games. We are putting together a list of addresses just to get a map of it. If you hear noise from the stadium from inside your home, please email amy@sapcc.org with your address.
In an effort to serve the creative community, the St. Anthony Park Community Council is taking a census to determine how many artists and creative enterprises there are in the neighborhood. Please click here to participate.
In March of 2009, the St. Anthony Park Community Council contracted with Artspace Inc. to do a report about the feasibility of an Artspace project in St. Anthony Park. Read the report...
Additional stations, project schedule, draft construction public information and more. Read it here...
If you didn't receive the Networker (our quarterly newletter) on your doorstep, find it here.
St. Paul Park and Rec is going to lease the South St. Anthony Park Rec Center Joy of the People - a St. Paul soccer group. Parks and Rec will discontinue some of it's programming. A date for the transition has not been set yet.
