Which Of These Park Board Candidates Embraces The Modern Wonder Of Email?

Top, official photo of Jon Olson on Park Board website, bottom, photo by John Hoff

There's an interesting little "bottom of the ballot" race shaping up for Park Board between Jon Olson and Michael Guest. The area one of these candidates will represent includes most (but not all) of North Minneapolis. (NoMi)

Here's an interesting little factoid which says a lot about the candidates. Jon Olson is the only Park Commissioner who (as of today) doesn't have an email address listed on the Park Board web page, click here. Word on the street is that Jon Olson is something of a Luddite when it comes to using email and the internet.

As for Michael Guest...well, I can personally confirm the man has email and uses it.

I am hoping one of these two candidates will write to me and say something about the shamefully inadequate amenities at Glengale Park, click here, which were pointed out to me by Kip Browne, the Chairman of JACC. One of them can just, you know, send me an email.

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Inadequate Facilities At Glengale Park, Jordan Neighborhood...

Photos By John Hoff

A few days ago, Jordan Chairman Kip Browne ("New Majority") took me to Glengale Park to show me the inadequate facilities at that location. Of course, it depends on how you define "inadequate." For example, the park has...

...a horse shoe pit. Kip says in all the time he's lived nearby--and that's been a number of years--he has never, ever, not even ONCE seen anybody playing horseshoes at Glengale Park.

But does the park have a HORSESHOE PIT? Oh, yes, it does.

What shiny new amenities will Glengale Park get NEXT, you have to wonder? A bocce ball pit? Shuffle board? A gray hound track all around the perimeter? Look at them crazy little doggies GO!!!!

A bench-like object in the park has nails sticking out of it, and severely needs paint. And the water fountain works, but doesn't drain. The photo of the spigot was taken after I slopped out a lot of the stagnant water with my hands but then I thought, oh, I should snap a photo.

Yeah, Glengale Park needs HELP. This blog is sending up a distress flare, pshhhhhhhhh!