This Week in Kingfield!

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KFNA Board of Directors | Wed, Oct 11

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Southside Mayoral Forum | Thu, Oct 12

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A Night of Converging Fiery Fun Events:
a) KFNA + CFPA = pizza pARTy,
b) Community Bon[ding] Fire | Fri, Oct 13

Also Save the Date & Take a Survey & Host a Sign!

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Visit with Solid Waste and Recycling at the Market | Sun, Oct 22

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Speaking of Waste...take the Kingfield Composting Survey!

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Kingfield Votes at MLK Park, the yardsign public education campaign!

Wednesday, October 11th, 7:00 PM

MLK Park, 4055 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis

Discussions will include increasing affordable housing opportunities, pedestrian solutions at 43rd and Nicollet, evaluating KFNA’s printed communication, and more!

KFNA meets monthly on the 2nd Wednesday and begins each meeting with a Community Forum, which is your chance to bring up a concern or community-related question to your local nonprofit. Or just come and listen! If you expect your question to occupy more than a minute or two in length, contact sarah@kingfield.org and schedule a time to get on the agenda.

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Thursday, October 12th, 6:30 PM (Check-in begins at 6 PM)

Sabathani Center, 311 East 38th Street, Minneapolis

Details on Facebook Here

Come hear about the Minneapolis Mayoral candidates’ plans for the safety of our community, accessible housing, and investment in our schools. You vote is your voice. Come speak up today.

To read the Joint Community Value Statement developed from input from residents of Bryant, Lyndale, Central and Kingfield neighborhoods, visit here

Sponsored By:
Bryant Neighborhood Organization, CAPI, Central Area Neighborhood Development Organization, Kingfield Neighborhood Assc., Lyndale Neighborhood Assc., and Waite House.

Reach us at (612) 824 -9402 x19

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Wear your headlamps, pack a lantern, and walk from one to the other! Check them both out!!

KFNA + CFPA = pizza pARTy

(Yep, that means an outdoor art-filled pizza event at the wood-fired oven!)

Friday, October 13th, beginning at 5:30 PM

KFNA Community Outdoor Oven, 3754 Pleasant Avenue South (behind the Center for Performing Arts), Minneapolis

Suggested donation of $10 per person. All ages welcome!

Come join the Center for Performing Arts and its’ tenants (which include the Kingfield Neighborhood Association) for a slice, and live performances around the fire.

The oven will close at 7 PM and attendees are invited to attend a free presentation on the CFPA Sunroom by Sound Artist David Means, entitled The Curious Way, featuring Camilla Hoitenga (Cologne), Homer Lambrecht (SP), and Georgia Stephens (Mpls). Please note, space is limited: see Facebook Event page

Or after pizza you could also choose to wander over to MLK Park for S'mores at the Community Bon(ding) Fire featuring spooky storytelling and fire dancing by the Minneapolis Fire Collective! See details below!

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Community Bon[ding] Fire

Friday, October 13th, 6:30 PM

MLK Park, 4055 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis

Join your neighbors for the annual community bon(DING)fire at King Park on Friday the 13th of October! We’ll have hot cider and s’mores, a spooky storyteller and, after dark, the Minneapolis Fire Collective will light up the night with fire dancing and fire breathing! Our playful and fun fire performers will thrill and amaze you!

There is a community pizza event earlier in the evening at the Center for Performing Arts if you want to make it a fiery night. Join us at both!

The Community Bon(DING) Fire is a free event--with Donations encouraged to continue fun events of community bonding. Bring a friend and a lawn chair–-all ages are welcome!

Hosted by KFNA and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

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Sunday, October 22nd, 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Kingfield Farmers Market, 4310 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis

Stop by City of Minneapolis Solid Waste & Recycling’s table at the Kingfield Farmers Market on October 22nd to get your recycling questions answered and test how wise you are about waste by seeing if you can correctly sort items into trash, recycling and organics recycling containers! Solid Waste & Recycling customers can sign up for an organics recycling cart directly at the table, and can also pick up an organics recycling kitchen collection pail and packets of compostable plastic bags to make it as easy as 1-2-3 to recycle your food scraps, paper towels and other organics at home.

If you don’t have City Solid Waste & Recycling service, stop by the table and learn how you can compost your organics with your current hauler or by using a City organics recycling drop off site.

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The Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA) has created an “Organic Recycling” survey to assess barriers and benefits for neighbors related to the City of Minneapolis’ curbside compost pick-up program. Please take the following brief survey whether you currently participate in the program or not: take online survey here

KFNA will be working in the coming year to increase participation in this program. If you are interested in being a member of this Rocking Organic Team (ROT!) just send an email to Sarah@kingfield.org. We will be hosting a Composting Café at Butter Bakery as our first team meeting in the coming weeks.

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Election Day is coming up Tuesday November 7th and all Kingfield residents vote at MLK Park. For Presidential elections, Kingfield typically has an 85% turnout. But if history repeats itself this year, more than half of those Kingfield voters will NOT vote in the 2017 municipal election.

KFNA has made yard signs that identify that MLK Park is the place for to vote for all Kingfield residents. We are seeking neighbors (up to 4 per block) who are willing to have a sign placed in their yards or possibly alleyways. We are especially seeking permission from corner property owners, and from property owners next to or across from multi-unit housing. (If your alleyway is across from the parking pad and/or dumpsters of multi-unit housing, your property may be an ideal spot for a sign also).

KFNA volunteers will place a sign in your yard, and then in the days after the election, KFNA volunteers will return to pick up the sign so we can re-use it next year.

To submit your address to receive a sign, visit here!

To make a donation to support this outreach visit the GoFundMe page

Special thanks to Kingfield resident Alex Kern for designing these yard signs!

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