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| A $5.8 million renovation of Minnehaha Falls and Glen area will begin Nov. 21 with a groundbreaking ceremony at 1 p.m. at the Minnehaha Falls park building. Elected officials supporting repairs to the WPA-era streambank walls and improvements to better manage stormwater and creek bank erosion will be present. |
Afghanistan and opium: the big payoff!
by Ed Felien
published November 03, 08
We have a choice of two general assumptions about Afghanistan. We can assume that opium grows in Afghanistan because it has always grown there, and nobody can do anything about it, and that Hamid Karzai and President Bush would really like to do something about it, but they wouldn’t want to interfere with local customs, and that it’s a great mystery about what happens to the opium after it’s grown, and that the opium is just a side issue and shouldn’t distract us from the mission to establish democracy in that country.
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New film “Ana’s Playground”
On location in Cedar-Riverside
by Sid Pranke
published November 17, 08
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Eric Howell |
“People need to know that 2,000 hildren are killed or injured in war everyday. And that one in ten combatants is a child.”—Twin Cities filmmaker Eric Howell
Over the past five years, writer/director Eric Howell has been on a mission to raise awareness of how millions of children are ravaged by war. With over 300,000 children under the age of 18 fighting in armed conflicts worldwide, Howell and others were determined to make a film about it. The result of that effort is “Ana’s Playground,” a short film with an award-winning script to be shot on location outside a high-rise in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood—home to many Somali refugees, among thousands who have settled in the Twin Cities since Somalia’s civil war erupted in 1991.
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