Here is the Bugle’s latest Midpoint, a mid-month web report on some local news and information, since the publication of our March 2025 issue:
SAP Community Foundation seeks grant proposals
The St. Anthony Park Community Foundation is now seeking small grant requests for 2025 from local community groups, nonprofits and schools.
Foundation executive director Julie Drechsler said grants are awarded to organizations and community initiatives that are dedicated to, among other things: improving the environment, supporting lifelong education, the arts, community livability, business vitality and inclusion and equity.
The 2025 grant submission deadline is March 31. Grants will be awarded in early June. For further details, check the foundation’s website at https://www.sapfoundation.org
“The grants are an integral function of the Foundation and it shows our continued commitment to our mission of fostering St. Anthony Park’s unique community assets to ensure a strong, vibrant, and inclusive neighborhood today and for future generations,” Drechsler said.
In 2024, the foundation awarded a combined $42,000 to 18 local organizations and community initiatives. In addition, the community non-profit awarded its first Michael Brasel Fund for Youth grant of $2,500 to the Twin Cities Big Brother Big Sister Program.
Submitted by the St. Anthony Park Community Foundation.
Spring Flower Show
The Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at the Como Zoo will open its spring flower show starting Friday, March 21 and continuing through April 27, and from May 2 through June 8. The first installation highlights flowers in shades of lavender, light blue, pink and peach.
Como’s horticulturists are hard at work this week putting the finishing touches on the year’s anticipated flower show.
This year’s spring flower show takes its inspiration from The Artist’s Garden at Giverny, Claude Monet’s iconic 1900 painting.
Osterholm guest speaker at League program
Dr. Mike Osterholm, regents professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, will talk about “What a Difference 100 Years Makes! Epidemics Then and Now” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25.
The League of Women Voters St. Paul is hosting Osterholm’s free online talk as part of its monthly “Learn with the League” program. Osterholm is also director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
This will be a virtual event and interested participants can register on Zoom at this link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_voePTn40TSa5L718Kdn4fw
The Zoom webinar will be closed captioned and also rebroadcast through program partners, SCCTV and SPNN and hosted on the LWVSP YouTube channel 24 hours after the event.
April Bugle coming
The April edition of the Bugle soon will be arriving in readers’ mail boxes and at bulk distribution locations in the St. Anthony Park area.
Our features include winners of the Bugle’s annual poetry contest and stories from our annual Senior Living special section.
Midpoint Report is compiled by Scott Carlson, Bugle managing editor.