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July 2023
St. Anthony Falls Lab public tour
Are you interested in cutting-edge fluid mechanics research and how that can impact our understanding of the environment? Consider visiting the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. At this interdisciplinary lab under the College of Science and Engineering at the U of M, there are faculty and research groups from five different departments on campus. Their work primarily focuses on how fluid dynamics impact the environment (climate, precipitation, stormwater, lakes, rivers, etc.), and energy (wind power, hydroelectric power). On this tour, you…
Find out more »Minneapolis riverfront walking tour
Saturday, July 8, 10-11:30 am. Walk the Minneapolis riverfront and learn about its dramatic past. On this tour, participants will visit the historic district at St. Anthony Falls, which was once the milling center of the world and is now a growing cultural, recreational and residential neighborhood. Your guide will share stories of the people who have lived and worked along the riverfront and how it has changed over the years. Learn about the riverfront renaissance over the last 40…
Find out more »Show rescheduled: Del Counts at Murzyn Hall
Join the Del Counts for their 62nd anniversary and Minnesota Music Hall of Fame Celebration, John P. Murzyn Hall, 530 Mill St. NE, show has been rescheduled to Friday, July 21, 6-10 pm .
Find out more »Hart Lake car show
The annual Hart Lake car show is set for July 29, noon-3 pm, at 3839 Hart Blvd. No cost to display your car. A '50s and '60s band, Lucky Lizzy and the Boys, will perform. Exhibitors can arrive about 10:30. Scouts will provide hamburgers and hot dogs, and food trucks will be on hand. To get around the detours to the show, take 35W to Co. Rd. D (go west), which turns into 37th Ave. NE. Follow to Stinson Blvd.…
Find out more »August 2023
The Lost Gateway District of Minneapolis walking tour
Sunday, August 6, 10-11:30 am. During the early 20th century, the Gateway District (or Lower Loop) was the largest Skid Row in the Upper Midwest. Flophouses, missions and bars mixed with a variety of other businesses that needed cheap rents and a central location. Between 1959 and 1963, in an effort to clean up the area, Minneapolis demolished 25 blocks, or almost 40% of its historic downtown—turning this part of the city into a wasteland of uninviting buildings and surface…
Find out more »Hollywood Theater walking tour SOLD OUT
Thursday, August 17, 5:30-7 pm, Hollywood Theater, 2815 Johnson St. NE. The Hollywood Theater, designed by the architectural firm Liebenberg and Kaplan, is one of the most intact Art Deco theaters remaining in Minnesota. It operated as a movie theater from its opening in 1935 until it closed in 1987. The property has been vacant and dark since 1987. A phased project was developed so that the exterior could be stabilized and restored with a multipurpose event center reuse for…
Find out more »Historic East Hennepin walking tour
Sunday, Aug. 20, 9:30-11 am. Located across the Hennepin Bridge from Downtown, this neighborhood was originally established in 1855 as the Town of St. Anthony Falls and later merged with The City of Minneapolis in 1872. Hear stories told from the perspective of individuals who have lived and worked here, through good times and bad. Come away with perspectives on what life and work here might have actually felt like throughout this neighborhood’s most defining eras. Tour guide Scott Parkin…
Find out more »September 2023
SACA community picnic
Community members are invited to attend a community picnic at the new home of Southern Anoka Community Assistance (SACA Food Shelf), hosted in partnership with Northeast Bank. SACA Food Shelf has served the communities of Columbia Heights, Hilltop, Fridley, Spring Lake Park and Northeast Minneapolis for almost 50 years, distributing an average of 58,000 lbs. of food per month. The picnic is Friday, Sept. 8, 11 am-1 pm, 3905 California St. NE. This event is open to the public, and…
Find out more »Zen Center open house
Compassionate Ocean Zen Center, 652 17th Ave. NE, will hold an open house on Saturday, Sept. 9, 1-3 pm. Tour the Zen Center, learn about their programs, meet guiding teachers, enjoy refreshments and attend a short introductory presentation at 2 pm. Compassionate Ocean offers opportunities for meditation practice, weekly talks and classes on Buddhist teachings. Four times a year they offer programs in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). They also conduct meditation retreats and introductory sessions. Info: www.oceanzen.org.
Find out more »Columbia Heights, Fridley Kiwanis celebrate 40 years of recycling
Saturday, Sept. 16, 9 am-12 pm at the Columbia Heights Recycling Center, 3801 Madison St. NE. Meet your volunteers and learn how current recycling practices enhance our communities and protect our environment. Refreshments will be served while supplies last. Remember to bring your soft plastics for recycling into benches (anything stretchable); cardboard, newspapers and periodicals; scrap metals; fluorescent light bulbs; and more. Even dust-covered bicycles are accepted. For more specific information go to the Columbia Heights web page: https://columbiaheightsmn.gov/departments/public_works/refuse_and_recycling/recycling_center_drop-off.
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