Kingfield Neighborhood Association

2019 Spring Family Bike Ride This Sunday

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Sunday, April 28th
3:00 – 5:00 PM
MLK Park Rec Center – 4055 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55409

Learn about bike safety, have a neighborhood bike ride, and go on a scavenger hunt to find signs of spring!  As you’re able, please bring your own bike or favorite non-motor, wheeled toy. Please dress for the forecast, and don’t forget your helmet!

Youth ages 5-19 are welcome! Parents/guardians, stick around!

All participants must be enrolled in 4-H & have completed a liability waiver. Forms will be available when you arrive.

Check-out their Facebook page and RSVP the event here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLK4HClub/

For more information about the event or about the MLK Park 4-H Club, please contact:
Amy (Hughes) Collura she/her/hers
4-H Program Coordinator | UM Extension | Hennepin County
479 Prairie Center Dr |  Eden Prairie, MN 55344
hughe534@umn.edu | w. 612-596-2134| c. 612-656-9557

Modified Kingfield Annual Garage Sale May 18th, 2019

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Although we did not get enough volunteers to have our traditional garage sale, the Kingfield Neighborhood Association is happy to support our neighbors that would like to have a garage sale. Here is what we propose:

For folks interested in having a garage sale on Saturday, May 18th, we can post some information on our social media platforms stating that there will be multiple families having garage sales. We can also make our KFNA garage sale yard signs available for you to pick up and place throughout the neighborhood a few days before the event.

Before we take these steps, however, we need to know that there will be sales that day. So, if you need some motivation to get in gear, make a plan for your sale and send an e-mail to Cheryl@Kingfield.org. If we receive at least 10 e-mails, we will start advertising. So start taking a page out of Japanese decluttering queen Marie Kondo’s book and releasing yourself of unwanted items, and start planning your garage sale for 5/18!

KFNA Annual Meeting & Pizza Party 4|27|19, 4-6 PM at the Kingfield Outdoor Oven

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Welcome Spring and elect a new Board of Directors to your neighborhood nonprofit, the Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA,) at the Outdoor Oven! Pizza, annual organizational report, introduction of current volunteers, great community conversation, and more! Children welcome—plan to join us!

As we get excited to welcome new KFNA Board members, let’s not to forget to honor those who are staying at the helm! Drum roll for Scott Mueller who is in the middle of his 4th term as a KFNA Board Director! Scott’s a communications guy and you can always count on him to tell you exactly how to connect to KFNA on Facebook, but at heart he is a DJ which is why the sound system is in his starter pack. He is also an avid Brewers fan, as well as a fan of partnering the consumption of brewed beverages with local trivia!

Scott loves bringing people together, so it’s no surprise that the effort he’s most proud of in his work with the Kingfield Neighborhood Association is the annual KFNA Polling Party held on Election Day at MLK Park.

 

KFNA Board Election this Saturday 4|27|19, 4-6 PM at the Outdoor Oven

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Welcome Spring and elect a new Board of Directors to your neighborhood nonprofit, the Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA,) at the Outdoor Oven! Pizza, annual organizational report, introduction of current volunteers, great community conversation, and more! Children welcome—plan to join us!

We are excited for new leadership, but thankful for those continuing their terms on the Kingfield Neighborhood Association board and super happy that Lisa Skrzeczkoski-Bzdusek has another year to serve!

As a public defender during the day Lisa stands up for the under-represented, and in her work with KFNA she likes to plan fun family activities that engage kids of all ages. She has been a leader of the both the Family Engagement Team and their First Saturday events as well as the MLK 4-H Council (hence a double meaning of the scales in her starter pack, balancing her career and her home life, as well as her volunteer commitments!)

Originally from Wisconsin, she also likes hiking, skiing, and swimming and has swam the Point La Point multiple times, be sure to ask her about open water swims in 60 degree water. She also enjoys good ol’ fashioned paperbacks with happy endings, hence Princess Bride in her starter pack. What’s a more feel good novel than that?!

Bright Lights Bumming You Out?

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Kingfield, there has been a lot of talk about the new LED street lamps owned by Xcel Energy being a wee bit bright.  KFNA is compiling a photo file to prove this point.  Please send a regular photo (jpeg) of the offending fixtures and the light they cast to info@kingfield.org. Please include a description of the location of the light fixture as well.

Thank you!

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Besides this action please also take the following 2 actions:

  1. The lights being replaced do not belong to the City they belong to Xcel. Call Xcel Energy Customer Care at 1-800-895-4999 or visit https://www.xcelenergy.com/outages_and…/report_outage (if you go to the website continue as if it is an outage and leave comments in the box at the bottom describing the issue with a new bulb on a pole.) Xcel will send a team out within 3-5 business days to try and solve the issue including changing the angle or adding a shield. I would recommend that you request a shield so that the bulb doesn’t get tilted and go across the street into your neighbor’s home.  I have heard Xcel is backordered on shields so will try and angle the light first. If it doesn’t work, please contact them again. You can include your phone number in the comments and ask that the outdoor team contact you to discuss solutions & notify you when the work is done. this would be important, especially if after they do the work you can’t see a difference.
  2. Call the 8th Ward office at 612-673.2208 and speak with staff or leave a message that you are unhappy with the new fixtures.  The City needs to know if citizens are unhappy with the “amenity” that Xcel is installing throughout the entire City.  While the fixture may meet the energy efficiency and dark sky goals of the City, we have also been told the City was not presented with an example or a menu of lighting options to select from.