U-WHO, or Upper Willard Homewood/Hay Organization (bordered by Golden Valley Rd, Theodore Wirth Parkway, West Broadway Ave, and Penn Ave), grew out of the much larger neighborhood group of WHO, or Willard Hay/Homewood Organization.
The WHO group was founded on the basis that block clubs and their leaders and residents would come together, brainstorm issues and ideas for the community, and convey the information to their individual block clubs. Blockclub leaders and residents worked closely with their Mpls Police SAFE Officer, Tim Hammett (Tim trains and works closely with Blockclub Leaders in Mpls.)
WHO was divided into 4, easier to manage, smaller groups: a lower, middle, upper, and eastern section (more recently referred to as West Highland). As WHO began to evolve, the upper section came to be called U-WHO; an easy to remember acronym that has kept it’s name to show association with the larger WHO group.
To find out who your block club leader is in U-WHO or if you are interested in becoming a block leader, contact James Nelson or Timothy Hammett.
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Click here for a PDF map of all properties in UpperWHO and their homestead status.
About WHO:
For information regarding the greater neighborhood of Willard Homewood/Hay, please visit the City of Minneapolis Neighborhood Profile or the Willard Homewood website.
Willard Hay is located in the northwest part of the city. The neighborhood is south of West Broadway Avenue and stretches from Penn Avenue to Xerxes Avenue. It gets its name from two elementary schools within its borders: Francis Willard and John Hay. The former was named after an American educator, author and reformer born in 1859, and the latter was named after an American diplomat and author born in 1839. A mainly residential area, the neighborhood includes Willard-Homewood, one of the city’s first planned developments, built during the first quarter of the 20th century and located south of Plymouth Avenue.
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