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National Night Out!
Tuesday, August 4th
On great blocks all over Kingfield!
Today is the Day Where We All Remember Why We Love Kingfield So Much—Great Neighbors!
National Night Out is a celebration of community! As you community nonprofit, KFNA wishes you the happiest of Block Parties and encourages every neighbor to walk outside and find a party to attend. If there isn’t one on your immediate street (or yours ends early!) walk over the Grand Café and enjoy a Classic Film accompanied by Live Piano music starting at dusk! Details are in the linked Facebook page—but do be sure to bring your own lawn chair!
Playing off the “classic theme”, your volunteer Kingfield Neighborhood Association Board Members will be out biking the neighborhood with Classic Sebastian Joe’s flavors, developed in past years with KFNA to share on NNO. Volunteers will stop by every party registered by the City deadline with free scoops. Who knows what Classic Kingfield flavor will come out of the cooler…Open Streets Cycle-delic? I Have a Dream Ice Cream? Kingfield Crème Fraiche Curry Crunch? …or maybe even the Flavor Formerly Known as Nicollet Pothole?!
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What makes your neighborhood special?
Please respond to this survey by August 5th (note deadline is the day AFTER National Night Out—just in case your memory needs a little jogging about why Kingfield is so great!)
Please take this opportunity to be part of an anonymous online survey about the character of Kingfield neighborhood and the places you feel are important to it. The survey is being distributed to residents of Southwest Minneapolis neighborhoods and is a chance to express your views about what makes your neighborhood special. The results of this study will be made available to the neighborhood, so you will be able to discover the diverse views your neighbors have about Kingfield. This study is being conducted by Madelyn Sundberg, a Kingfield resident and graduate student at the University of Minnesota, for her M.S. in Architecture: Heritage Conservation and Preservation thesis under the guidance of Professor Greg Donofrio. If you have questions, you are encouraged to contact them at sundb173@umn.edu or donofrio@umn.edu.
The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete and you will be given the option to enter your email address at the end of the survey for a chance to win an iPad Air. To participate in this survey please click the following link:
SURVEY
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King’s Grand Re-Opening Outdoor Party
Saturday, August 8th, 11:00 AM - 11:00 PM
King's Wine Bar, 4555 Grand Avenue, Minneapolis
Stop by and join the outdoor fun and festivities and meet the new management and owners!
There will be outdoor Asian street food, classes will be offered throughout the day in the Wine Room, door prizes, giveaways and more!
For more information visit www.kingsmpls.com/events/
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Garden to Table Dinner
Saturday, August 15th, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Kingfield’s Pleasant Community Garden, 3754 Pleasant Avenue South, Minneapolis (located just north of the Center of Performing Arts)
$ 55 per person/ limit 12 guests
Come enjoy a four course dinner prepared by Community Garden coordinator, Kingfield resident, Butter Bakery Cafe’s bakery manager and lover of a good meal, Suzie Lillyblad. She will be joined in preparing the meal, by a group of food-loving community gardeners. This serene outdoor venue gives guests the unique experience of dinning in the beautiful surroundings of the KFNA’s Pleasant Community Garden.
This is a truly local meal, with some ingredients supplied by vendors at the Kingfield Farmers Market and others that have been grown in Suzie’s community garden plot. Where else can you dine right next to where the ingredients are grown and harvested?
Funds raised through this special KFNA Community Garden Event will help build Kingfield's first wood-fired community oven at this site in the fall. Before dinner, tour the community garden and learn about our plans to build the community bread oven.
Find Kingfield Community Gardens on Facebook to see pictures of previous dinners and sample menus.
Cost: $55 per person $40 of the cost of your ticket may be deducted as a tax-deductible donation to KFNA, as the law allows.
Location: Pleasant Community Garden, W. 38th St. and Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis
To Make a Reservation: Email info@kingfield.org with your name, contact info, and how many seats you need. We will contact you to confirm your reservation and arrange pre-payment.
In case of rain, the dinner will be relocated to a sheltered location and proceed as planned!
Kingfield Community Gardens
Grow · Pick · Enjoy
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King’s Grand Re-Opening Outdoor Party
Classes FREE the week of August 17th
The Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant Ave, Minneapolis
OULA is an easy to follow, high cardio, dance fitness class for people of all abilities. It is a motivating hour of high-energy exercise to great music where participants are free to let it all out, and dance free of judgment. OULA is not just an exercise class, it is an experience. We are a welcoming community where you enter looking to burn calories, and leave feeling better about yourself and your day. OULA is One epic hour of sweat, joy and total inspiration.
Classes are FREE the week of August 17th. Please visit the web site for details.
The Center for Performing Arts: 3754 Pleasant Ave, Minneapolis, MN.
website: OulaTwinCities.com
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Playground Ribbon Cutting and Community Celebration
Saturday, August 22nd, 10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
MLK Park, 4055 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis
On August 22, 2015 our beloved community will cut the ribbon and celebrate the grand opening of the first African-American inventors & civil rights-themed playground in the country. The playground is in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Minneapolis at 4055 Nicollet Avenue South. The ribbon-cutting will be preceded by a march, rally, and program, and will be followed by entertainment and all kinds of fun activities at the park. Please join us for any or all of the day!
Saturday August 22 Schedule
- 10:30am GATHER at the east parking lot of Sabathani Community Center (310 East 38th St.)
- 11:00am RALLY at Sabathani and line up for the march (van/bus seating available)
- NOON MARCH from Sabathani to the park (distance is just under 3/4 mile, or about 30 minutes)
- 1:00pm LISTEN as we are welcomed to the park with drumming, ritual, and words of inspiration
- 1:30pm CELEBRATE as the playground is opened with a formal ribbon-cutting
- 2:00-4:00pm ENJOY free entertainment, games, exhibitors, an art sale benefitting the park, food and ice cream for sale, face painting, and more fun for all ages
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KFNA Seeking Volunteers for Various Neighborhood Activities
KFNA Seeking Volunteers:
- Ice Cream Scoopers Needed during the MLK Park Playground Groundbreaking Celebration, Saturday August 22, early afternoon
- Street Captains Need during Nicollet Open Streets, Sunday Sept 20, Many Shifts 11 AM to 5 PM
- A Neighbor with Knowledge of Fruit Tree Trimming or Espalier Experience to Help Train Gardeners to Care for an Apple Tree at the Community Garden
- General laborers (digging, material moving, cement pouring) to prep the pad for the Kingfield Community Bread Oven, week of August 17th & 24th
- General & Skilled laborers (brick laying, stucco) to construct Bread Oven, September 2015
- Photographers/Multi-Media Gurus: Nicollet Open Streets Event and Bread Oven Construction Project
For more information on any of these volunteer needs contact Sarah at info@kingfield.org
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