Honoring service of community through local park naming….

You tended beauty.

Great turnout for our third District 4 parks meeting!

The ribbon is cut!

Our second District 4 event brought together area volunteers leading buckthorn removal and restoration efforts.

On January 19th, after an afternoon snow storm….

One violent crime is always one too many….

Cedar Lake area residents have been impacted by the Southwest Light Rail Transit project for several years…..

We lost this ancient tree (over 250 years old!) in Loring Park earlier this year…

Look carefully to the left of the path at the mass of bright green young buckthorn and the different look on the right side…….

One of the key responsibilities of elected park commissioners is……

In early September, the board was presented a resolution approving Metro Transit’s use of parkland….

SWLRT closes channel between Lake of the Isles and Cedar until spring 2024….

On September 7th the Hiawatha master plan passed with a vote of 6-3. Some thoughts I shared during our board meeting….

Loring Ribbon-Cutting…..Celebration and Demonstration

Solomon Gustavo from the MinnPost interviewed four of my colleagues and myself about our first few months together.

City of brotherly love or city that throws snowballs at Santa? Both.

“Why are you peeing in the park?” I asked.

I received my first email as “commissioner-elect” about two weeks after the election. “There is a dead Canadian goose near the shoreline freezing into the ice and I am concerned that it will stay there all winter. Can you help?”

Seeing Hallie today at the opening day celebration for the Seven Pools felt like coming full circle.