Lake Street News
Brief
The Lake Street
Council's mission is to build a cohesive strategy to ensure the ongoing vitality
of the Lake Street Corridor business community.
If you are a business owner or
commercial property holder on or within a block of Lake Street,
please take our Lake Street Survey
today!
Lake Street Holiday
Shopping:
No need to go to the mall! You
can find just the right gift for everyone on your holiday list right here on
Lake
Street. Join your friends and neighbors at some of
Minneapolis’
most unique and fun shopping destinations. From now until Christmas, we will be
featuring suggestions on places to go to make your shopping easier and
bring a smile to the face of that special person opening your special gift. Have
fun on Lake
Street and happy shopping!
- Beauty & Health: Pamper friends
& family with a gift certificate to Daisy Nails, Spirit Quest
Massage or Universal Hair Salon. Blue Nile Perfume &
Lotion has a gift for everyone in the family, specializing in an array of
oils for both women & men.
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Books: Resource Center of the Americas offers
language classes, a library, and a bookstore that you’ll want to visit
regularly. A membership is the perfect gift. Already a member? How about a
gift certificate for that next class? Or buy a book that will be guaranteed to
enlighten. Don’t forget their Holiday Gift Fair.
Also, browse the
wide selection of calendars & more at Orr Books and count on Magers &
Quinn for new & used books for every
age!
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Entertainment: Tickets to a
production make a fabulous gift so make sure to stop by Bryant Lake
Bowl, In the Heart of the Beast Theatre, Pangea World
Theater, Patrick’s Cabaret or The Jungle Theater!
Other
Announcements:
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Make sure to
come to the first quarterly Lake Street
business-to-business social, organized by Lake Street Council and located
at Carne Asada, at the corner of Chicago and Lake. It's happening Thursday of
next week, December 7th, from 5:00 - 7:00 PM. Order a great dinner and get to
know other Lake Street business owners.
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The Uptown
Association is participating in Get Fit Twin Cities, a fitness challenge
program. Get Fit is a great program for worksites of all sizes; however,
they're particularly interested in recruiting teams from small worksites that
typically do not have employee wellness programs. If other areas of Lake
Street are interested, let Lake Street Council know and we can help you
get started.
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It's not too early to start thinking about the
2007
STEP-UP Summer Jobs Campaign
Connecting Minneapolis’ promising young
people with the experiences and training they need to become tomorrow’s
skilled workforce.
Upcoming Events:
November 29th: Hiawatha-Lake
Under-Bridges Improvements Public Meeting
6:30 - 8:00 PM, 2703 East 31st Street (Holy Trinity
Lutheran Church)
You are invited to this follow-up meeting to learn more
about proposed improvements at the Hiawatha-lake intersection and to share your
observations and experiences as a driver, transit user, and pedestrian under the
bridges.
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, 920 East Lake Street
For more information, call 612-296-3680
7:00 PM, 810 West 31st St. (Lyndale United
Church of Christ)
For more information, call 612-296-3680
December 6th: "Murder and Mayhem!"
Stories of the Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery
5:30 - 7:30 PM, 2120 Park Ave. (Entrance on East
22nd St.)
Come for a feast, storytelling, and celebrating 30 years
of The Alley newspaper. RSVP to 612-278-7195. Donations of any size
welcome.
8:00 PM, 3010 Minnehaha Ave. S.
"We look into the
shadows of the past, to shine light on the present and hold a mirror to the
future. The jumping off point is the cabaret scene in Berlin 1920-1933. Why
then, there? It was a time of great artistic freedom, with strong protagonists,
and antagonists, just like today."
For more information,
call 612-724-6273
8:00 - 10:30 AM, 3200 West Lake Street
(Applebee's)
All proceeds go to help fund a trip for an inner-city
group of 8th & 9th graders to The National Service-Learning conference in
Albuquerque (March 2007). Serving pancakes, sausage, bacon, orange juice, and
coffee, for a minimum donation of $5.
December 9th: Craft Sale for the
Revolution
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2815 East Lake Street (Jack Pine
Community Center)
Arts and crafts by local artists, food, music, and
activities for the kids.
December 14th: Leadership: Honoring the
Greatness of African American People
6:30 PM, 710 Hennepin Ave. (Pantages
Theater)
WE WIN Institute's 2006 Kwanzaa Celebration, honoring
community leaders. Free to the public.
6:30 PM on the 15th and 16th, 4:30 PM
on the 17th
Come experience the Christmas Story like you never have before.
Audiences will move among three different locations: from the Mercado Central to
the Avalon Theatre, and, in a torch-lit procession, to St. Paul Evangelical
Lutheran Church, where all will be welcomed for the Nativity and a fiesta --
complete with music, food, and games.
Through December 30th:
Fair Trade Holiday Craft Sale
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Monday -
Friday, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Saturdays
3019 Minnehaha Ave. (Bookstore of the
Americas)
Featuring a wide selection of fairly
traded items from throughout the Americas, including jewelry, food, scarves,
toys, soaps, wood carvings, and ornaments, in addition to cards, books and
CDs.
Through December 31st: Wonderful
World, at Obsidian Arts
2948 Chicago Ave. S.,
Suite #220
Works by Koffi Mbairamadji
7:30 PM Tuesday - Thursday, 8:00 PM Friday - Saturday,
2:00 & 7:30 PM Sunday
2951 Lyndale Ave. S.
"Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 18th century comic
masterpiece, rollicking with unconventional wit and wholesome emotion, is the
perfect confection for the holidays!"
