Orchids to lawn mowers, car club, the veteran fishing trip
We have on in Mountain Iron. Next year immigrant students will be able to take Minnesota math and other tests in their native language — Somali, Hmong or Spanish. Orchids: To Mike Gornick’s Nuisance Wildlife Control business. Seventeen pests were …
Things to do the last weekend of the Minnesota State Fair — plus some trivia!
People, too: The Great Minnesota Moo-Off Contest is at 2:30 p.m. Saturday on the Moo Stage outside the Cattle Barn. Monday is Hmong Minnesota Day at Dan Patch Park (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Now in its third year, Hmong Minnesota Day at the State Fair highlights …
Hmong dance team mentor accuses Lynx of using ‘exploitative’ sales tactics
Tou Ger Bennett Xiong jumped at the opportunity for the Community School of Excellence’s Hmong dance team to perform at a Minnesota Lynx game. He mentors the dance team and helps get them in front of audiences. So when the Lynx called to ask if they’d …
Want to open a small business in St. Paul? Now you have a user’s manual.
Prince noted that the pocket guide has been translated into three languages — Spanish, Hmong and Somali. Thao said there’s still plenty of work to be done, but he praised DSI Director Ricardo Cervantes for being open to change and innovation.
Alley Advocates: From trash collection to public safety, these St. Paul teens mean business
The students, all of them Hmong, have completed mini-seminars on subjects as varied as financial literacy, college readiness, business etiquette and even de-escalation strategies, which they found helpful following encounters with a few gruff store owners …
Johnson High School students take on menthol tobacco
The students are working with the Minnesota Association of Nonsmokers and the Tobacco Free Alliance and are speaking to members of the Hmong community, both in English and Hmong. Earlier this summer, the students had a booth at the Hmong Freedom …
Cultivating friendship: Woodbury woman’s passion for Chinese culture, art helps inspire state’s first Chinese garden
Designs for the garden also feature a Hmong cultural plaza to honor an additional connection between St. Paul and Changsha. St. Paul is home to the United States’ largest population of Hmong people, an ethnic group originally from southern regions of China …
Sally Award winners announced; Garrison Keillor to bid farewell to the fair
The Initiative Award goes to Hmong song poet Bee Yang. Born in Laos, he grew up among the great song poets of his time and became a respected voice for his people. After years in the refugee camps of Thailand, he came to St. Paul in 1987 with his young …
Immigrant groups seek new language-immersion programs in diverse Osseo schools
Reflective of student demographics, that wish list will likely include languages that aren’t typically taught in school immersion programs, like Somali, Hmong and Vietnamese. Minnesota has a longstanding history of being a national leader in immersion …
Knight Arts Challenge finalists feature theater, dance, art, storytelling
Ideas for the arts in St. Paul ranging from a drive-through theater experience to a Hmong museum to a music collaboration involving the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, TU Dance and Justin Vernon of the indie group Bon Iver at the Palace Theatre have all made …
What it’s like to be an immigrant in a time of uncertainty
How do you deal with that? How do you cope with that?” “I’m a first-generation Hmong from Laos. I think the Hmong story in Minnesota has actually been told many times. When we came here in 1976, I was 3 years old. I’ve grown up with some of the racist-type …
Teachers of color reflect on navigating a mostly white education system
A product of the St. Paul Public Schools system, herself, Xiong says it was difficult growing up without a single licensed Hmong teacher in the classroom. In part, this lack of representation is the very thing that compelled her to pursue her teaching license.
Minnesota Teacher of the Year finalists of color reflect on navigating a mostly white education system
A product of the St. Paul Public Schools system, herself, Xiong says it was difficult growing up without a single licensed Hmong teacher in the classroom. In part, this lack of representation is the very thing that compelled her to pursue her teaching license.
‘Wind River’ flows to satisfying conclusion
Movie review: ‘Detroit’ succeeds if it shows us how we got here What’s new in theaters and for home viewing this week Is a Hmong-helmed horror movie ready to make a killing? St. Paul investors hope so ‘Wonder Woman’ leads triumphant summer for …
Best of Neighborhood News 8/10: Native Caucus at Minnesota Legislature finds strength in numbers
Check out the full guide at The Column. In 1988, former St. Paul mayor George Latimer sealed an official tie with a city on the other side of the globe: Changsha, China – the ancestral home of the Hmong community. Come 2018, the two cities will renew …
Hope shines through stories of Asian-American immigrants to Minnesota
Others are fantastical creatures, like a talking bear and a cyclops cat. A few are clearly self-portraits of their Hmong elder puppeteers, creating disconcerting double images. While some scenes deal directly with trauma — a Hmong elder tells how fields …
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Hmong gather for missions, celebration, business
ST. PAUL, Minn. (BP) — A Buddhist monk was the first person to approach her booth in 2010, the year Lisa Vang began an outreach to the 30,000 or more people who annually trek to the annual Hmong International Freedom Festival in Como Park. “I had never …
