A block party is therapeutic after tragedy

My wife and I always look forward to our St. Paul neighborhood’s block party on National Night Out in August — and never more so than this year after the heartbreakingshooting of St. Paulite Philando Castile during a police traffic stop.

Philandoworked at the J.J. Hill Montessori school, which is less than a block from my house, and less than two blocks from the section of street where our block party is always staged.

Because of the shooting, ourneighborhood is continuallyerupting in antipo...