have been working as part of this community building it up building up the ronald is first of all just doing incredible work but as we go all around this entire city what makes neighborhoods great what makes our community great is the fact that all of you are willing to come out to be a part of this festival to be to support our local businesses to live here to invest here to send our children to schools here everything that you all do makes this such a special place to live so i get to  this so at this point i want to give it up for our are called some member nothing and you'll click and he's going to come up and do a little honor for some incredible heroes of this community but after no you know with great honor that i have the opportunity this afternoon to recognize two outstanding individuals that have dedicated their lives for the last thirty years to keep the memory of rondo alive over the past fifteen twenty years the band has gotten bigger and better and this year without doubt the of thirty or forty young brothers that were working down there and went back and identified each and every one of them took the time to go back and talk to their due cendant to find out what they were doing at this present time and some of the things that they found out that in spite of racism you know in spite of making low wages they were able to build a foundation and to help their children and grandchildren to aspire to higher and better thing and for that we will be internally grateful to florida and martin the other thing in nineteen fifty six all the way up to nineteen eighty two or so it was our new little mention of rondo through the work of floyd and m not only have books been written but we have a exhibit down at the minnesota historic society to keep our memories alive because these young folks need to understand that how we did it back in the day in spite of the obstacles that was confronting us we still ride and so it's with honor that i want to call my legislative aide who worked hard we had a couple of days to put this together and know now got on the case and we were able to get the necessary approval to have the proclamation and also the science that will be dedicated to these two young brothers thank you so working in the word one office there are good days and there are incredible days and this is an incredible day for me and it's an honor to be a part of writing this resolution that was passed by the city council just this past week st paul city council resolution whereas marvin roger anderson and floyd g smaller jr were both raised in the historic rando neighborhood of st paul and where as rondo avenue and the surrounding area was the hurt of st paul's the largest african american neighborhood serving as a home to generations of african american families as well as hundreds of african american businesses and community institutions and whereas the construction of i ninety four in the one nine hundred sixty s devastated the rondeau neighborhood by displacing thousands of residents and demolishing hundreds of businesses that along with rondo avenue itself were removed to make way for the interstate hundred eighty two marvin roger anderson and floyd smaller jr established rondo avenue inc as an organization dedicated to sharing the contributions of african americans and the rich cultural history of the rondeau community to the city of st paul and the state of minnesota and whereas rondo avenue inc has served as a vital platform for bringing descendants of the rondeau community as well as newer residents of all backgrounds together to celebrate the history and enduring legacy of the rondeau community through the annual rando days festival and other endeavors and whereas in two thousand and thirteen the community celebrated the thirtieth annual rando days festival the largest and most successful event yet the opening of the rondo neighborhood exhibit at the minnesota history center and the dedication of the red caps room at the newly renovated st paul union depot and whereas because of the decades of hard work dedication and sacrifice is of marvin's roger anderson and floyd smaller jr over the past thirty years the memories and stories of the rondo community will be preserved for the benefit and education of future jenner of st paul residence and whereas the co naming of a street after leaders who have served the community with distinction is an acceptable way to honor their contributions and whereas the childhood homes of marvin rodger anderson and floyd g smaller were located on rondo insane anthony avenues near lexington parkway and western avenue respectively now therefore be it resolved that can avenue between lexington parkway and dale street is here by co named marvin rodger anderson avenue and that same anthony avenue between i and st anthony avenue between victoria avenue and western avenue is here by co named floyd g smaller jr avenue street signage will be placed by the department of public works at the appropriate corners of lexington parkway victoria ave dale street and western avenue signed all seven members of the st paul city council and hello friends and residents a rando it gives me great pleasure to thank the people that provided this opportunity and a whole lot of things go to the guy that really pushed this thing i head for marvin and i a whole lot of thank yous and i really don't know ma and i talked about it we don't know how we going to thank this guy his name is nick c tell you about that later but in the meantime i'd like to say my wife of fifty three years she was named to make it today because she's home sick then i'll be getting back to her shortly after we're done here but my most of my family  i and our work wasn't in vain and thanks to marvin that he talked me into this some years ago and i go back further than people know we work together we played together we talked together we did a whole lot of things together and i want to take a is one disses one great young man and it gives me a big pleasure to introduce my partner for life joined to the hip together marvin our anderson thank you so much i have been full and i have been friends for over sixty years and i accept this award this wonderful honor that has been given to us on behalf of all of the the waiters the porters the cooks the maids chauffeurs that packing house workers all of the people that made rondo community what it was i can't tell you how much this means to me i want to thank all of you for coming out here i want to thank michael in this sel it's all we will be rondell to us i want to thank my wife gloria for allowing me to be a part of this my daughter a z and my granddaughter as i am flights grandkids and his this is the lay him an award a guy who keeps music especially jazz on the minds of the community mr felix james mr felix james of walker wes music academy i want to thank him and read this plaque but first i gotta get him to hold this mike this is the lady cam an award jazz award awarded to mr felix james for his years of supporting up and coming new to new sicko artists in st paul and throughout the twin cities and for his contribution to do what we do there so i like to say thank you michael and the selby jazz festival for this honor i really cherish it and after so many years of doing what we do we still have more growth going on right now so for young kids will like to experience the growth in beauty and the development of jazz hey we're still doing it so thank you very much for this war and thank you all right thank you felix very very much watch your step a lot of wires over here this next award is called tomorrow harris award this ward is for a person who exemplifies humanitarian and community this lady really needs no introduction her name is miss mary kay boy mary kay yes she is day mary kay thank you honey the moral here is community award awarded to miss mary kay boyd for her outstanding contributions to the quality in education and to community development for her tireless efforts on behalf of the welfare of our community tomorrow here was her war goes to miss mary kay boy thank you thank you so much michel you know i was raised in this community and i was so proud to see roger and floyd have their names on the streets because in the future there are children who will not know of rondo but when they see the names they'll start to ask the questions and learn about rondo how many of you here see yourselves as educators you are all educators this is the village that raises the children and remember you are the educators of our future i am so proud to receive this and i just want to tell you on october twenty sixth there will be a gathering of celebrating you the community educators watch for the time and place at golden time thank you i'm proud to receive this