[MPLS] Lasallians in the news

[Dorie Rae Gallagher]

 I have always looked at that island as a park with historic qualities good 
and bad.
 If it has not been treated well and land has been encroached upon...cast 
the
blame in the right direction to the stewards of the land...Minneapolis Park 
Board.
This too can be changed...
dorie gallagher/nokomis


     there's very darn little park in
>> that park. Several park boards and other public entities, have never 
>> guarded Nicollet Island as park space. It's a joke to pretend that the 
>> island is a park. WizardMarks

  DeLaSalle has not always been that large.  They expanded
> their building as recently as 2000.  From the looks of their success, 
> their enrollment will continue to grow.  Where are they going to find the 
> space for those additional students, classrooms, cars, buses?
>
> The Park Board is also guilty of screwing up the regional-park 
> characteristics.  They paved over half an acre of prairie....
  Unfortunately, we've already lost much of the history on the
> island, especially from the most historic period (from which its historic 
> designation derives) of the late 1800s.  People would use the park for the 
> historic park that it is and could be.  Nicollet Island is nearly as 
> unique and historically important as St. Anthony Falls.  It ought to be 
> treated that way.
> Chris Johnson
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