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Kingfield Neighborhood Association Board Meeting, June 13, 7 PM, MLK Park
Dr. Martin Luther King Legacy Council, June 14, 6:30 PM, MLK Park
Crime Prevention and Safety Committee: May 15, 6:30 PM, Graffiti Clean-up Event! Meeting location 40th & 3w at the pedestrian bridge!
Youth & Schools Committee, TBD, MLK Park
Green Committee, no meeting scheduled.
Redevelopment Committee, May 23, 7 PM, MLK Park
Event Committee, TBD, MLK Park
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Dec
12
Friday, January 6
7-10 PM
Studio Bricolage, 4301 Nicollet Avenue South (under Anodyne–also known as Leonardo’s Basement)
Use any kitchen gadget, plugged or unplugged, as the main mechanism in your part of the chain of a causation machine. The start and stop point is the oven in the art room of Leonardo’s Basement. The end involves turning on the oven and baking a sheet of cookies. You want to do that part? Bring friends, co-workers, complete strangers. This is a popular and incredible evening.
Start planning your link today!
Dec
9
Help Needed To ID Laundry Room Burglar
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December 9, 2011 (MINNEAPOLIS) On two occasions apartment building laundry rooms have been the target of either damage to property and/or burglaries. In the first case, which occurred on November 1 at 3019 Pleasant Avenue South the suspect was captured on a surveillance camera tampering with laundry room equipment. See images below. The case number for this event is 11-356540.
The second incident occurred on December 2 at 4300 Grand Avenue South. In this case, a similar described suspect as illustrated below reportedly forced his way inside the building, entered the laundry room, pried open the coin box on a washing machine and before leaving cut several water lines. Ultimately, the water flooded the basement damaging other property. The case number for this event is 11-361011.
Both crimes occurred between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
The suspect in both cases is described as a black male, 30 to 40 years old, 5’ 9” to 6’ tall with a medium build. His hair was described as being in long braids and fashioned in a pony tail. He was unshaven and wore glasses.
If anyone can identify this suspect or provide information about these cases they are asked to call Sergeant James Jensen of the Fifth Precinct Property Crimes Unit at 612-673-5587.
The PIO contact for this release is Sergeant Stephen McCarty.
Dec
8
South Minneapolis dog park site approved after lengthy debate
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- Star Tribune, December 7, 2011 – 8:07 PM
The off-leash romping area will be at a Park Board facility in south Minneapolis.
More than a year after controversy erupted over a proposal to create an off-leash dog park in Martin Luther King Park, a south Minneapolis spot for a new dog park has finally been approved. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted Wednesday to accept the recommendation made by a citizen committee to convert part of the board’s South Side operations center parking lot in the west corner of Lyndale Farmstead Park into the off-leash dog park. The vote was seven in favor, with one member abstaining and another absent. It would be the first off-leash park in the park system’s sixth district;
Dec
7
Amendment Would Save Crime-Stoppers
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Two specialists are slated for layoffs under the proposed budget.
Southwest Minneapolis might keep two of its most critical police resources, after all.
Southwest’s City Councilmember Betsy Hodges (Ward 13) has proposed to fund the Crime Prevention Specialists with leftover money from the Police Department’s 2010-2011 contingency fund. The full council is expected to approve the amendment, passed Tuesday by the Council’s budget and taxes committee. Crime Prevention Specialists Amy Lavender and Chelsea Adams toil away in relative obscurity for the residents of the Fifth Precinct. Until, that is, a wave of crime hits, a mobile drug-dealing operation starts cruising a neighborhood, or a block’s rental house starts to become a problem property. At those moments, all the anonymous work the pair puts in comes to the fore: organizing block clubs, working hand-in-glove with residents to track public safety issues block-by-block, and keeping the department’s busy officers appraised of what’s going on in the precinct.
Dec
7
Local author brings vampires to Christmas
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Nothing frightening about holiday book for kids
By Josh Wolanin, Southwest Journal
Jeff Berg [Kingfield resdient] meditated on this question after his 5-year-old daughter, Eda, posed it one Christmas morning: If vampires are up all night, how do they receive presents on Christmas?
“I thought it was the most brilliant question ever asked,” Berg, the creative director at Olson, the local advertising firm, said.
He immediately set out to work on the book that would become “Mrs. Claus & the Batty Christmas.” Each three of the four little vampires in the book share strong resemblances to Berg’s three children, which makes sense, since they helped on the design.
Dec
6
Join us in Giving Back This Holiday Season!
This Holiday Season Cafe Ena & El Meson will be holding a Toy and Clothing Drive for The Family Partnership, one of the oldest non-profits in the twin cities. This is truly an amazing organization that helps many families and children that are in need. Last Thursday, December 1st there was a break-in at their north Minneapolis location. The thieves took most of the gifts that had been donated for families that are being sponsored. Our Goal is to replenish all these gifts, with your help! The Drive is from December 5th- December 23rd. You can drop off donations at Cafe Ena or El Meson. Please see list below for items in need and for for more information about The Family Partnership check out their website www.thefamilypartnership.org
Here are some items that are needed:
- See-n-Say
- Farm or house playschool set
- Baby dolls
- Cars (matchbox or larger ones)
- Dump truck
- Fire Engine
- Lego kits
- football
- basketball
- family board games
- jewelry box for preteen
- Art sets
- Deplux block sets
- Puzzles w/nobs wo/nobs
- Play sets for kitchen (food, mops/brooms, kitchenware, tea sets)
Most parents are asking for the basics
- Pots and pans
- Comforter sets
- Sheets and pillows
- Dishes
- Utensils
- Coats, scarves, gloves, boots for kids ages 1-5
Dec
6
One-Time Yard Waste Pick Up This Week
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If you’ve got city rubbish pickup, set your yard waste out by the curb by 6 a.m. on Dec. 7. When you do, Minneapolis officials say you have to make sure:
- Brush and branches are put into bundles. Individual branches must not be longer than 3 feet and no larger than 3 inches in diameter.
- Bags must weigh less than 40 pounds.
From Southwest Minneapolis Patch