Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Calling All Green-Minded, Trivia-Wonks to Help Plan Our First Green “Hoppy Hour”!

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Kingfield & Minneapolis Climate Action are set to host our first local, green-focused Trivia-based Hoppy Hour on Tuesday July 9, 5:30-7 PM at Pat’s Tap and we want your help!

Besides the parameters outlined above (place, date, time, and trivia) we have nothing figured out and this is why we need you! Are you a Trivia junkie? A Zero waste pro? A happy hour fan? A mildly interested neighbor who wants to connect and do something fun with other fun neighbors?

We need a group to plan the format, questions, timing, scoring, greeting, advertising, and fun! Let me know if you are interested and can attend a planning meeting on Wednesday June 19 from 5:30-7 PM) for a brainstorming-planning session.

Our goals for this event are:

  • To educate neighbors about composting and zero waste
  • To celebrate a local business already doing sustainable practices
  • To have fun and meet new like-minded folks
  • To start building local, green leadership who will continue to plan information/educational/environmental events focused on spreading knowledge and working to build sustainable practices one household at a time.

Sounds fun but you can’t make the planning session?  Be sure to put the event on your calendar for July 9.  We will be recruiting leaders to plan the next Green Hoppy Hour there, and we are thinking it might be based around a Jeopardy style face-off of pros…so obviously we need your clever brains to help with that one too!

Coaches Still Needed for King Park Little Kids Soccer

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We are still in need of volunteer coaches to help with Little Kids Soccer program at MLK Park this summer, Wednesdays 6:15-7:15. You don’t have to be there all of the 9 weeks or have soccer experience. In order to prevent the program from being canceled we need you to join in the fun and teaching. We work with 4-year-olds through 9-year-olds, and generally have 60+ kids each Wednesday.

We need 5 more coaches, with 8 or 9 of them being at any given Wednesday session. If you can join in the fun, let us do some on-the-job training with you. We’ll team you with one or two other experienced coaches in the games in the 4’s, 5’s & 6’s, or 7’s -9’s groups of ~15 kids.

Sessions are June 19th through August 14th Wednesdays 6:15-7:15pm. You come as often as you are in town. Coaches arrive by 5:45 PM to baseball field #1 to help set up the fields and consult with other coaches about assignments.

Let Michael know if you can help with the fun by e-mail at michaeljvanderford@gmail.com, or by phone (612/296-9647).

 

Conversations about Buildings and Homes

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  • A  KFNA Redevelopment Meeting

KFNA Redevelopment is hosting a special meeting on Tuesday June 17 at Butter Bakery Cafeto talk about our neighborhood and the opportunities and challenges it faces to increase density. The question the committee is exploring is “what can neighbors do to help increase affordable housing options at long vacant properties near Nicollet Avenue or other primary corridors?”

At 7:30 the committee will be joined by representatives from Beacon Interfaith Housing which owns one of these properties. Beacon will update the committee on development ideas they have for the vacant lot behind Butter on 37th Street.

Feel free to join us. Contact KFNA at info@kingfield.org if you have any questions. RSVP to sarah@kingfield.org

MULCH!

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At the MLK Donation Garden at MLK Park, 4055 Nicollet on the north side of the building

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HOW much? What kind? Why should you bother with it? Join your neighbors and Hennepin County Master Gardeners to learn the details about mulching.

Everyone is welcome. Feel free to drop in and bring your questions, tend the soil, and meet neighbors, whether weekly or whenever you can!

PorchFest Preview Party(& Merch! & Music!)

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It’s a PorchFest Party at the Kingfield Farmers Market this Sunday! Stop at the KFNA Community Table to get a link to download a free Spotify PorchFest Playlist, have a glance at the map showing locations and bands, and purchase a souvenir beer coolie to support the event and keep those beer cans covered as you stroll the streets of Kingfield on June 20th!

Even the band at the Market on Sunday is in the PorchFest spirit! Come hear One Ukulele at the Market…and who will bring their Americana/Folk sound to the stage at Ascent Acupuncture during PorchFest’s 2nd shift from 7:30-9:00 PM.

Kingfield PorchFest Sponsors

  • Locus Architecture
  • The Lowbrow
  • Butter Bakery Cafe
  • Twin Town Guitars