Southwest High Class of 1970

01/04/2026

Sad news to bring to you today.

Obituary for John Arthur Sivanich
Sivanich, John Arthur, age 73 of Eden Prairie, MN passed away peacefully in his sleep on December 26, 2025.

John grew up in southwest Minneapolis and was a consummate classic car and motorcycle enthusiast. John worked at Banner Engineering for over 30 years as a design engineer and a tool maker.

Preceded in death by parents Arthur and Lucille and siblings, Bonnie and Peter Sivanich.

Survived by loving wife, Stephanie; sister Barb Sivanich, brother Steve Sivanich (Patti), brother David Sivanich and sister-in-law Kris Sivanich, step-sons; Brett Gruesner (Mindy), Ryan Gruesner (Ryan); step-grandchildren, Aiden and Reece Gruesner, many nieces and nephews.

Visitation Friday, January 9, 2026 at 10:00am to 11:00am at Washburn-McReavy, Edina Chapel, 5000 West 50th & Highway 100, Edina, MN 55436. Memorial Service will be held on Friday, January 9, 2026 at 11:00am to 12:00pm at Washburn McReavy, Edina Chapel, 5000 West 50th & Highway 100, Edina, MN 55436. Graveside Service, Friday, January 9, 2026 at 12:45pm to 1:15pm, Lakewood Cemetery (Minneapolis), 3600 Hennepin Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408

Washburn McReavy Funeral Home 952-920-3996

01/04/2026

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08/15/2025

A woman dies at age 65 before collecting one benefit check. She and her employer paid into the system for almost 50 years and she collected NOTHING. Keep in mind all the working people that die every year who were paying into the system and got nothing.

And these governmental morons mismanaged the money and stole from the system, so that it's now going broke.
BEAUTIFUL! And they have the audacity to call today's seniors "vultures" in an attempt to cover their ineptitude. DISGRACEFUL!

The real reason for renaming our Social Security payments is so the government can claim that all those social security recipients are receiving entitlements thus putting them in the same category as welfare, and food stamp recipients.
THIS IS WORTH THE FEW MINUTES IT TAKES TO READ AND DIGEST!
F.Y.I. By changing the name of SS contributions, it gives them a means to refute this program in the future. It's free money for the government to spend under this guise.
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a Federal Benefit Payment ?
I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you.

Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment."
This is NOT a benefit. It is OUR money , paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too ! It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.(This should be enough for you to forward this message, If not read on.)

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.
If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved.

This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it's a fact). And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did (or Lyndon Johnson).
They took our money and used it elsewhere. They "forgot"(oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them ... and they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. (Isn't it funny that they NEVER say this about welfare payments?)
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a benefit, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. This is stealing!
Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't mean that our investments were for charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of the 92% of our population who need it.

Then call it what it is:
Our Earned Retirement Income .
90% of people won't forward this.
PLEASE! Will you?

04/04/2025

Showing today at Saint Anthony Main at 4:25

04/04/2025

If you’re not busy today, go to the Minneapolis Saint Paul film Festival. At 4:25 there will be a film about Mark Wise’a brother who died in Vietnam. I’ll be there.

04/02/2025

Looks like some celebrating is coming up. Kelly and Leer class of 68 to be honored.

09/09/2024

To all of our dear 1970 class. It is with the deepest sadness that I inform you about the passing of a huge gem of a man. Our dear Yabo, Bob Yablonski died at 1 AM today. He had had a massive heart attack last week and had been in a coma. Light and love to Bob’s family and to everyone

08/02/2024

The Southwest Foundation would love if you would join us for
golf, raffle, auction, food and fun
at our annual SWF Golf Tournament
on Friday, September 20th.

The registration deadline is September 6th.
Sign up today!

To become a hole sponsor, to donate raffle items,
or for more information
please contact Allison at [email protected].
Find more event details below.

The more, the merrier: invite to your friends!
We hope to see you there!

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08/05/2023

The Southwest Foundation would love if you would join us for golf, raffle, auction, food and fun at our annual SWF Golf Tournament on Friday, September 29th

The registration deadline is September 15th.
Sign up today!

To become a hole sponsor ($200), to donate raffle items,
or for more information
please contact Allison at [email protected]
Find more event details below.

We hope to see you there!

Southwest Foundation funding goes directly to support students. You can read about some of the impact your dollars are making as well as highlights from Southwest High School in our newsletters, which can always be found at http://www.southwestfoundation.org/news.
Your participation and contributions keep our school excellent for every student entering our doors.
Sign up Now

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Minneapolis, MN 55410
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12/05/2022

RIP Carol Braddock. Eddie/Carol died December 4,2022. There never was and never will be another one of these. A truly special and unique person. Carol loved life and people (and cats) so much!