Kingfield E-Mail Notice
April 24, 2008
Content:
1) KFNA Annual Meeting a huge success–125 attendees elect new board members!
2) 46th Street Bridge Removal Scheduled
3) Youth & Family Summer Program Fair, April 20, 11AM-4 PM, Sagrado Corazon, 3800 Pleasant
4) Kingfield Garage Sale—next Saturday, registration due Wed. April 30!
5) Trial for accused murderer of Kingfield neighbor, Mark Loesch set for 5/8/08—Final call for Community Impact Statements!
6) 5th Precinct Open House, Thursday May 15, 5-7 PM, 3101 Nicollet Av S
1. Thanks for coming to the Kingfield Annual Meeting!
New board members serving Kingfield include David Buchanan, Marie Wolf, Jeff Shaw, Chris DeParde, and Mark Brandow. Re-elected members JobyLynn Sassily-James, Dave Saddoris, and David Postosky.
125 people enjoyed the delicious food provided by Anodyne, Butter, La Chaya, Cinco de Mayo and Victor’s 1959 Café. Thank you, Kingfield restaurants! Neighbors, be sure to eat locally whenever you can—we have a great variety of scrumptious food within our community! Twenty of the voting members children spent the meeting creating amazing inventions courtesy of Leonardo’s Basement—thanks to Jef and Leonardo’s for the fun!
KFNA is still looking for people to serve on various committee’s including Green (3rd Thursdays), Redevelopment (4th Wednesdays), Farmers’ Market (3rd Tuesdays), and the Crime Prevention and Safety Task Force and walking groups (various times). We also needs some help with event planning and site coordination for Walldogs this summer, as well as bands and other performing groups willing to play short, nonamplified 1 hour gigs at Walldog sites this July or at the Farmers’ Market this summer. One-time volunteer commitments are available too, especially at the market, which opens Sunday, June 1.
Questions regarding anything to do with KFNA, its operating procedures or activities, can be directed to Sarah Linnes-Robinson, KFNA Executive Director, or 612.823.5980.
2. 46th Street Bridge and 35W to Close on April 25
The 46th Street bridge remains open; however, the bridge is scheduled to be demolished the weekend of April 25; weather permitting. In preparation for the bridge demolition, the 46th Street bridge will be closed at 9:00 am on Friday, April 25. The 46th Street bridge is scheduled to re-open in spring 2009
Additionally, all lanes of northbound I-35W, from Interstate 494 to Interstate 94, and all lanes of southbound I-35W from I-94 to Highway 62, will be closed at 10 p.m. Friday, April 25 through 5 a.m. Monday.
All lanes of Highway 62, from Penn Ave to the western junction of I-35W, will be closed at 10 p.m. Friday, April 25 through 5 a.m. Monday, April 28.
For More Information on the Crosstown Project
Crosstown Project Hotline: 1.866.743.6590
www.mndot.gov
Crosstown Project Office: 6242 Lyndale Ave S, Richfield
*For office hours, call the Crosstown Project Hotline.
3. 2008 Youth & Family Summer Program Fair
Sunday, April 20th 2008
11:00AM – 4:00PM
Auditorium, Centro Sagrado Corazón de Jesús
3800 Pleasant Avenue South
Sagrado Corazón will be hosting its first ever Youth and Family Summer Program Fair. We are excited to be able to provide the youth and families of the Sagrado Community this opportunity to learn about all of the educational and fun programs you have available for the summer. Please contact Jennifer Grassman if your organization would like a table at this event.
Jennifer Grassman
612.810.3135
4. Kingfield Neighborhood Garage Sale May 3, 9am-3pm
Registration until Wednesday, April 30!!
$10 individual sale / $30 for group sale (group sale is 5 households on same block – can be paid together but registration forms are needed for each sale holder)
The Kingfield Garage Sale is listed in the Star Tribune garage sale guide (printed April 21) and advertised in the Friday, May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd Star Tribune.
Registration forms can printed from www.kingfield.org or picked up outside the KFNA office 3754 Pleasant Ave. S. #101 .
Garage Sale Maps will be available on Friday night, May 2nd at local coffee shops. Sale holders can pick up maps (limit 25 per sale holders) at the KFNA office or at Caffee Tempo, 4161 Grand Ave. on Friday evening or Saturday morning.
Call Joanna Hallstrom, KFNA Project Organizer, 612-823-5980 x3 with questions.
5. Final Call for Community Impact Statements in the trial of Donald Eugene Jackson
The trial for Donald Eugene Jackson, accused of the 2nd Degree murder of Mark Loesch, is set for 5/6/08. KFNA is still requesting Community Impact Statements for this trial and for that of his fellow accused, Jamaal Bernard Rays who will go to trial on 7/7/08. Please try to get statements in at least five days before the trial begins. Duplicate Community Impact Statements can be submitted for both these persons. It is appropriate to submit a general statement about how the actions of each individual and the type of crime have impacted the livability in your community. Community Impact Statement forms can be found at www.kingfield.org under the crime and safety link.
Community Impact Statements (CIS) are presented to the court by prosecutors from the Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office to show the negative impact a specific offender or a specific crime has, not only on the victims of the crime, but also on the community in which the crime took place. Anyone in the community can write a community impact statement; you do not have to be the direct victim of a crime or have personally witnessed the criminal activity in order to submit a CIS. Community Impact Statements are extremely important as they demonstrate to the judge how a crime has impacted you/the community, and may influence the judge’s sentence. More information about Community Impact Statements can be found here.
If you have comments on the type of information, the transmission of this information, or other comments related to this process please contact Sarah Linnes-Robinson, KFNA Executive Director, or 612.823.5980.
6. 5th Precinct Open House
Come join Inspector Kris Arneson for the 5th Precinct Open House on Thursday May 15, 2008 from 5 to 7 PM, 3101 Nicollet Av S.
This will be a fun time with food and games for the whole family.