Empty Bowls 2012

Hello,
I would like to invite you to sign up to volunteer for Kingfield’s 1st Empty Bowls event. Please click on the link above to sign up.

I am using Jooners to organize this activity. To participate, you do not need to register or become a member of Jooners. You just enter your email address, name, and notes to me and you will be notified of any changes and receive reminders via email!

Please feel free to pass this link onto friends in the neighborhood or colleagues that care about the issues of hunger and homelessness, or have a particular interest in youth. Information on the event is attached to this email. Youth between the ages of 12-15 are welcome to volunteer with a parent or responsible adult. Youth older than that are welcome to attend and volunteer on their own.

We are still seeking bowl donations for this event.  If you are able to help please contact me directly, or bring your donation to the Color Wheel Gallery at 46th & Grand, 11 AM- 7 PM, Tuesday-Saturday.

Thank you and feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions!

Sarah Linnes-Robinson,
KFNA Executive Director
sarah@kingfield.org
612.791.7081 cell

“Communication is crucial to creating and maintaining strong relationships with the communities we serve. Our e-subscription service will allow us to quickly and efficiently distribute information to email subscribers interested in specific services, programs and facilities,” explained Jayne Miller, Superintendent of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. “Email subscription services will improve public access to information, reduce staff time, cut costs, and increase our “green” communication efforts.”

To subscribe, select the red envelope icon on the home page of www.minneapolisparks.org. By simply entering an email address on the e-subscribe page, subscribers can add topics, change topic choices or unsubscribe.

Join us for a hands-on learning experience on redistricting. For the first time, you will have the power to draw and propose your own redistricting maps for Minneapolis City Council. This event will show you how to draw lines that are drawn around people, not politicians. Come by yourself or recruit a team to participate in this once-in-a-decade event. All maps entered will be submitted to the Minneapolis Charter Commission. Cosponsored by CURA, Urban Research and Outreach Center, and Common Cause Minnesota. Please see the attached poster for more info and the links:http://www.cura.umn.edu/events/2012-02-18/draw-your-own-map and http://www.drawminneapolis.org/.

The event on the 4th is more informational and is being sponsored in conjunction with the Humphrey’s Center for the Study of Politics and Governance. The event on the 18th is about the redistricting process but will also involve actually drawing new ward maps. It is not expected or required that you attend the event on the 4th in order to attend our event on the 18th.

The agenda for the 18th will be:
9:30-10am background on redistricting
10am-12pm group map-making in the lab
12-12:30pm debrief and share maps created

* Second, we’ve simplified the Neighborhood Policing Plan process.  As always, your Crime Prevention Specialist will be your prime resource to devise and implement your plan. Plans posted on-line will be updated periodically–they won’t be “annual,” they’ll be a “living document” based on your regular feedback regarding your neighborhood leaders’ and volunteers’ activities, and the MPD’s implementation of crime prevention partnership strategies listed in the plan. Once we have your point person or leader signed up for the Academy, we can begin updating your NPP on-line.

* Lastly, we have set a goal to reach the goal of 90% of Minneapolis’ blocks organized by a committed block club leader by the end of 2014.  We just passed the half-way point, and would like to get ahead of schedule. We are offering priority seating to expanded sessions of the Academy for leaders taking on previously unorganized blocks. We’ll continue to work with your crime prevention committee to recruit new leaders. And we are issuing this “Neighborhood Policing Plan Challenge”:  When your neighborhood reaches or exceeds 90% of your blocks organized by committed crime prevention block club leaders, any crime alert subscriber in the neighborhood can opt-in to the Action Alerts.

If you are our “go-to” person for your neighborhood’s policing plan, just hit reply, and fill out the application form below.  The Academy will run from March 14 through May 16, 2012–all Wednesday evenings–Academy topics schedule follows the application form.  We’ll need all applications submitted by February 28.

We look forward to continuing this vital partnering and seeing you at the Citizens Academy!  If you have any questions about the Academy, the Neighborhood Policing Plans, or the Action Alerts, don’t hesitate to contact me.  Thanks!

Luther Krueger, Crime Prevention Analyst
Minneapolis Police Dept., Property Information Center
Room 100 City Hall
350 S. 5th Street + Minneapolis MN 55415
612-673-5371 + Luther.Krueger@MinneapolisMN.gov

For citywide crime stats and MAPS link to: http://www.minneapolismn.gov/police/crime-statistics/codefor/

For your first contact regarding crime issues in your area link to: http://www.minneapolismn.gov/police/outreach/docs/safe-staff-map.pdf

The MPD never sleeps.