Won't You Be My Neighbor

"Won't You Be My Neighbor" showed me how Mr. Rogers set the foundation for most of what I try to do in my personal and professional lives:
*To be fully present
*To be kind
*To accept each person as they are
*To use that as a starting point for helping to make them better
*To pursue my own vision even if it is not fashionable or popular
*To learn what a neighborhood is and how to be a neighbor

Obituary of a block club leader

When Dorothy Ellringer died, the Minneapolis Star Tribune featured her work with the Park Avenue Block Club in her obituary. An excerpt: "Her cat-and-mouse crusade with local drug dealers made her a media spectacle — gripping her shotgun in Annie Oakley garb in one cover story — and a thorn in the side of City Hall politicians."