[Mpls] Re: Mpls Digest, Vol 21, Issue 69

[Sheldon Mains]

It was a great event--the music was awesome.  I think I had wild rice fixed
8 different ways.  Great buffalo and great venison.  Brought a friend from
my previous job who lives in the Woodbury and she was loved it.

sheldon
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Sheldon Mains
Seward Neighborhood, Minneapolis, Minnesota 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mpls-bounces at mnforum.org] On Behalf Of gemgram
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:54 PM
> To: Phyllis Kahn; mpls at mnforum.org
> Subject: Re: [Mpls] Re: Mpls Digest, Vol 21, Issue 69
> 
> 
> Thank you for coming Phyllis.  About 350 people came and 
> bought tickets, and 
> like you very much enjoyed the food and fun. We had an 
> additional 50 elders 
> who were provided with tickets. Even so we had lots of food 
> left over.  No 
> Buffalo, and only a little fried bread,  but plenty of beef, 
> pork, venison, 
> turkey, wild rice and other things. Well not really left 
> over, because it 
> all went to Anishinabe Wakaigun to feed the folks there.  
> Next year please 
> bring your friends, we will again make enough to feed 100 
> more than we 
> expect. I honestly can not imagine where anyone could get 
> more or better 
> food for ten dollars.  And have that ten dollars be a 
> donation to help 
> children!
> 
> Several political folks were in attendance and were giving 
> donations rather 
> than asking for them. A quality I can appreciate in a politician.
> 
> Thank you, to all the folks who came and helped.
> 
> Jan Graham organized and directed the whole thing, but all of 
> the staff and 
> volunteers had fun pitching in as a team. Some of the staff 
> such as Destiny 
> Rawls, Jan Graham, Iva Bunker and others were working and cooking at 
> midnight last night and then up and cooking at 4:00 or 5:00 
> AM this morning 
> to make the food.  Though we men helped, to be brutally 
> honest, it was the 
> women who did most of the planning as well as most of the 
> work.  Thank God 
> for them.
> 
> Jim Graham,
> Ventura Village
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phyllis Kahn" <rep.phyllis.kahn at house.mn>
> To: <mpls at mnforum.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 2:48 PM
> Subject: [Mpls] Re: Mpls Digest, Vol 21, Issue 69
> 
> 
> > Thanks so much for the posts about the American Indian 
> lunch. I went 
> > and it was terrific. I was only sorry I didn't bring all sorts of 
> > people with me. Please, next year, post a bit earlier so 
> those of us 
> > who react a bit more slowly can get organized.
> >
> > Phyllis Kahn   State Rep 59B
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