For the past year, I have walked twice a month, every month, except on two occasions (one record breaking snowstorm and one dangerously hot day), on the East Isles Safety Club Walks. We meet at Triangle Park in anonymously donated orange shirts and walk throughout East Isles, along Lake of the Isles, Hennepin Avenue, Lake Street and smaller neighborhood streets.
We stop in to say hello to managers at Kowalski’s, Namaste Café, Walgreens, Nico’s Tacos, Lunds, Korean BBQ and all the other neighborhood businesses, while noting the increasing empty storefronts. We walks in partnership with neighbors, local businesses and police in part to demonstrate that East Isles is cared for.
I hope you will join us on Tuesday, October 24 as we mark the one year anniversary of the East Isles Safety Walking Club (for more in-formation visit https://www.east-isles.org). If all of us step up, there's hope for change.
