Neighbors Pam Stranz, left, and Dorothy Bode have teamed up in their northeast Minneapolis neighborhood to keep a watch over vacant homes, many of which have been foreclosed on and boarded up, like this one on N.E. Pierce Street. Stranz has 11 children and Bode nine, and together they are trying to keep the area safe. Stranz said that when her family moved into the neighborhood it was “considered the safest spot in northeast Minneapolis.”
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