Happy Valentine's Day !

I hope this day finds something special for you like chocolate, flowers or a little red "Be Mine!" heart.

Even if you didn't get anything from a sweetie, "The Hillsider" needs you to be our valentine.

We cherish your stories, letters-to-the-editor and advertisements.

Send your love letters ...er...ads, stories and etc. by Tuesday, February. 20th at 12 noon.

The frosting on our cookie would be seeing you that Tuesday evening at the board meeting at 6:30 p.m. Share your ideas for "The Hillsider," consider joining the board....AND get a Positively Third Street Bakery Cookie along with Fair Trade Coffee or Tea.

Sincerely,
Naomi Yaeger-Bischoff
Editor of "The Hillsider"

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Citywide Meeting on Crime Prevention

Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth
224 East Fourth Street, Duluth, MN 55805
Phone: (218) 727-8604 Web site: http://www.nhsduluth.org/
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Please join concerned residents from across the City of Duluth at a

"City-Wide Meeting on Crime Prevention"
*Internet Predators:
Who’s communicating with our children?
* This meeting for adults only
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
6:00pm - 8:30pm
Holy Family Church
2430 West 3rd Street
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Featuring from the Superior Police Department
Sergeant Nick Alexander
Computer Forensic Analyst
Along with
Detective Tom Champaigne
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Special Invited Guests:
Neighborhood Police Officers
From across our City
Special Thanks to your City-wide Community Clubs, the Duluth & Superior Police Departments,
Holy Family Church, NHS Duluth and LISC.

Please mark your calendar:
March 1st: “Meth – Impact on our Children”
7:00 at Central Hillside Community Center


For more information contact:
Debbie Isabell Nelson Mona Cheslak
Neighborhood Coordinator- NHS Duluth East Hillside
(w) 727-8604 (h) 626-3073 (h) 724-119
On behalf of Community Leaders from across our City!

“If everyone of us does one thing...and encourages those in our neighborhoods to do one thing..
We can make a huge impact on the whole City of Duluth!”

Blakc History Exhbit Event

PILGRIM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

HOLDS BLACK HISTORY EXHIBIT EVENT

Sunday, February 18 at 11:15 am

THE ARTIST PRESENTS BACKGROUND OF HER MOVEMENT WORK

“Local People Move…in Duluth … Holmes County …Nationally”

an exhibit of documentary photography & posters from the 1960s to 2006

by Sue Sojourner



Writer, documentary photographer, and installations artist Sue Sojourner will meet and talk to those who gather at her exhibit on Sunday, the 18th. The public is invited to come and learn of her work and local Duluthians’ involvement in the ongoing movements for social justice.

The event will be held in Salter Hall adjoining the Sanctuary at the church building at 2310 East 4th Street , Duluth . Free and open to all interested viewers—church members and visitors—from 9am to 4pm on weekdays and on Sundays from 9:00 to 11:30, the exhibit will be displayed there through Wednesday, Feb. 28.

Selected from the 70+-piece show—“On Dr. King’s 78th Birthday”—that opened in The Small Gallery of Washington Studios Artist Cooperative on Martin Luther King Day, the exhibit at Pilgrim is only slightly smaller and contains some items not shown at the Washington building, where hundreds of schoolchildren and adults viewed it as they gathered before the King Day march and during the remainder of January.

Set on two easels that fill three walls, the exhibit showcases Sojourner’s most recent work and introduces the first pieces in her current project on Duluth ’s Local Activists:

(1) her two portraits and text, done in Nov2006, of Duluth-born neighborhood activist and civil rights elder Maxine Taylor and

(2) her still-evolving photo collage, also shot in Nov2006, but in Selma and Montgomery , where a large contingent of peace & justice activists from Duluth conjoined Dr. King’s concerns for both civil rights and peace into current actions with others. After a five-day march across Alabama , they joined 1000s for the annual SOA (School of the Americas ) Protest at Ft. Benning .

For more information or to arrange display of the exhibit as it tours Duluth-area schools, secular and religious organizations, contact the church office at 724-8503 or Sue Sojourner at susojo1@callta.com 726-0341.

Soul Food Dinner, Feb. 17th

Soul Food Dinner
Saturday, Feb. 17 6 to 9 p.m.
After Party 9 p.m. to midnight
Grand Ballroom at UMD
Phone 218-726-8444 or
612-717-5234
to reserve tickets
Sponsor: UMD Black Student
Association
Community welcome

Martin Luther King Day activities remind us to celebrate achievements, fight injustice and work for ‘The Dream’

Caption:Michael Bailor poses beside a civil rights display in the Washington Center. On Martin Luther King Day the crowd gathered at Washington Center to sing songs and view the documentary collection of Sue Sojourner. (Photo by Naomi Yaeger Bischoff)


The celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s, 78th birthday kept Duluth’s Hillside neighborhood buzzing on Monday, Jan. 15. The day started with breakfast served by the African American Men’s Association at First United Methodist Church (“The Copper Top.”)
Over 230 people ate at the meal. The event was linked by Public Television to the Martin Luther King (MLK) breakfast in Minneapolis. The keynote speaker at the Minneapolis event was Roslyn Brock, Vice Chairperson of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Board of Directors.

With politicians like Sen. Amy Klobachur, Sen. Norm Coleman and Gov. Tim Pawlenty in the Minneapolis audience, Brock was not afraid to admonish her listeners. She said, “The true testament of power is how we treat the man who has no position to hold.”
She cited figures showing that the United States and Minnesota in particular still have huge gaps in education, health and economics between racial groups. She said the state of Minnesota under funds public education by $1 billion. And five times more money is spent on the prison system than on tuition at the University of Minnesota.

“I agree that no child should be left behind,” she said. To her it should mean that a child should not look to the prison system to attain on-the-job-training.

She quoted South African president Desmond Tutu who said, “It is difficult to wake up a man who pretends he is sleeping.”
She told an African proverb in which some elephants had made it across the river, but the smaller elephants were stuck on the other side. The older, bigger elephants went back across the river to walk and swam with the smaller elephants and brought them to safety on the other side.
Brock then said, “We have some folks still standing on the banks.” She said there is no time to write a grant, do more research or pass legislation. “Just turn around and help!” She listed Minnetonka, Eden Prairie and Edina as communities that need to remember that they are their brother’s keepers. She said while you are following the Minnesota North Star, “Once you make it, don’t forget to turn around and help somebody else.”
After the breakfast the pastor of the First United Methodist Church, Rev. David Bard, said that Roslyn Brock was inspiring and challenging at the same time. He said one point that stuck out was that Brock said Minnesota spends five times more money on incarcerating a person than on educating a person.
The Rev. Denita R. Williams, the new pastor of St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church said, “Ms. Roslyn M. Brock was a dynamic speaker, I enjoyed her greatly. I believe her words that said we have sat on the sidelines long enough were very accurate in conjunction with her analogy of the elephants. The analogy of the elephants left us with a visual image and not just an audible one. It provoked us to ask the question, ‘Who are we willing to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with to assist along life’s path.’”