Star Tribune (Minneapolis-Saint Paul): On a proverbial dark and stormy night, Sage Holben’s porch is relatively dry for her Friday moviegoers. Riley Soeffker, 13, munches on pretzels, and Ben Grim, “almost 5,” wolfs down some popcorn. Neither is distracted by the bunny-rabbit shadows that Pedro Garcia’s hands are casting on the screen or the passing cars with loud exhaust systems.
As the rain picks up, one of three young adults walking down Bates Avenue bellows, “What is it this week?”
“‘The Fantastic Mr. Fox,'” Holben responds. “One week you should stop in.”
“I might have to,” the hooded pedestrian says. “It looks kind of slick.”
Even on the driest of evenings, the creaky but sturdy L-shaped porch provides shelter from the urban storm, a refuge that Holben, a librarian at nearby Metro State University, has created in St. Paul’s rough-and-tumble Dayton’s Bluff.
[This librarian creates a place for neighborhood kids to come together and watch movies. It’s a pretty inspiring story. -AndyW]
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