That's when he retired from the grocery business after spending 52 years behind the counter of the store his grandfather opened at Burr Street and Minnehaha Avenue in 1886. His energy has sustained him, he says, and he still jogs and plays tennis at least once a week. Phil Kormann is a person who is as interested as he is interesting, and his curiosity about so many things keeps leading him down new paths of knowledge. He is also a Eucharistic minister at Marian Center in St. Paul, celebrating communion with the elderly there. That's an organization that helps people start up businesses.
Rock music is just three or four chords and bang, bang, bang.
This space at Woodwinds was designed as a crossroads, a two-story town square with balconies, a broad stairway and two stories of glass looking out into a Woodbury thicket. It's meant to be inviting not only to patients and their visitors, but to anyone who just needs a place to relax, Cathy Einberger says. If they want to go to Woodwinds, they can hear Phil play on Mondays and Thursdays. As if the playing the piano was not challenge enough for Phil, six weeks ago he bought a violin and soon he'll begin taking lessons on it.