Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Four Easy Actions to take NOW to help Get Out the Vote in Kingfield!

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Get your We Are Kingfield  / We Vote At MLK Park yard signs!  

Have you seen them popping up all over Kingfield? Well, there is still time for you to get yours! It’s simple! A volunteer will place the sign in your yard in October, and then within a week after the election, a volunteer will retrieve it for re-use in 2020.  Request your sign(s) here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1A5YoujpZFgnCf10V5BybBuUiwum_426w49VqoJDmeGY/edit?ts=5b6ca723

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Sign up to be a KFNA Get-Out-The-Vote Block or Building Captain! 

The Block Captain program is a new effort by KFNA to make sure everyone’s voice is heard in November. We’re looking for one Block Captain per block to make sure everyone on their block is registered, talk to them about early voting options, and encourage them to vote in the days before Election Day. KFNA will provide voter registration materials, and we’ll also be holding a couple of training events.  Interested? Sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/CAaQrskdrt7YUeKA3

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Volunteer to be a Baker or Greeter for Kingfield’s Polling Party

Tuesday Nov. 6—shifts available all day at MLK Park, 4055 Nicollet

All Kingfield neighbors vote in a single location and Kingfield’s Polling Parties are the largest celebration of community and civic responsibility that KFNA organizes all year. Once again as a “thank you” for voting, we will provide free, hot coffee and tasty treats to all Kingfield neighbors, all day long, as they come to cast their ballots in precincts 8-6 & 8-7 at MLK Park!

Volunteer to be a part of it! Greet your neighbors, hand out delicious homemade treats as well as ones donated by our many fabulous restaurants including: Butter Bakery Café, Sun Street Breads, Victor’s 1959 Café, andThe Lowbrow!

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Share this Polling Party event on Facebook so all your friends see it and remember to vote! Better yet, Join the event and INVITE your friends to it!!  Even better yet, make a plan to meet your friends at MLK Park for coffee and voting at a specific time!!!

Together we can Get Out the Vote!

SW Community Parks Workshop and Online Survey

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Tuesday October 23, 6:30 PM at Bryant Square Park, 3101 Bryant

Share your thoughts on improvements you’d like to see in your neighborhood parks during the next 20 years.  Park staff, designers, and community members will work together on new master plan designs – your participation is welcome!

Neighborhood parks included (Central Group): Bryant Square, Painter, Lyndale Farmstead, and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr parks; as well as Kings Highway, The Mall, Loon Lake Trolley Path, and Lyndale School Pool. Additional workshops are being held for other neighborhood parks in SW Minneapolis.

Learn more, take an online survey, or sign up for emails at the project webpage:

Southwest Service Area Master Plan

Be a Kingfield Get-Out-The-Vote Block or Building Captain!  

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The Block Captain program is a new effort by KFNA to make sure everyone’s voice is heard in November. We’re looking for one Block Captain per block to make sure everyone on their block is registered, talk to them about early voting options, and encourage them to vote in the days leading up to Election Day. Twenty-five neighbors have already stepped up to this task, which is great, but with 100 blocks in Kingfield it is possible that they your block doesn’t have a contact yet and THAT means we may still need YOU to talk with your block neighbors and make sure they have a plan to get to the polls on November 6th.

KFNA will provide voter registration materials, and we’ll also be holding a couple of training events. Interested? Sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/CAaQrskdrt7YUeKA3

I-35W@94 Road Closures & Construction Update

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I-35W: Both directions closed 10 p.m. Monday, Oct 8 to 5 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9 from Highway 62 to I-94.

I-35W@94  http://www.dot.state.mn.us/35w94/

Coming up:

I-35W: Both directions closed 10 p.m. Friday, Oct 19 to 5 a.m. Monday, Oct. 22 from Highway 62 to I-94. This is to shift traffic lanes on I-35W.

Tentative openings planned:

Third lane of I-94 west: 5 a.m. Oct. 17.

Access from I-35W north to downtown at 11th and East Grant: Single lane reopens 5 a.m. Oct. 22.

26th Street bridge: Early November.

All closures are weather permitting and subject to change. Please visit the www.511mn.org for real-time updates.

 

 

Planned I-35W south closure tonight is delayed but I-94 still occurring

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I-35W@94   http://www.dot.state.mn.us/35w94/

Postponed: The planned closure for I-35W south tonight is moved to Monday, Sept. 24.

Also note these future closures:

I-94: Both directions  closed 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20 to 5 a.m. Friday,  Sept. 21 from I-394 to I-35W.

I-35W south: Closed 10 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24 to 5 a.m. Sept. 25

I-35W: Both directions closed 10 p.m. Oct. 8 to 5 a.m. Oct. 9 from I-94 to Highway 62.

I-94 west ramp to I-35W south: Closed Oct. 12 to Oct. 22.

I-35W: Full closure from Hwy 62 to I-94 10 p.m. Oct. 19 to 5 a.m. Oct. 22.

Nicollet Open Streets Sponsors

Event Sponsors

  • kmart
  • Lyndale Neighborhood Association
  • MN Brewery Running Series
  • Wells Fargo
  • Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Neighborhood Sponsors

  • Nicollet Ace Hardware
  • Five Watt Coffee
  • Driftwood Char Bar
  • Pat's Tap
  • Pompadour
  • Butter Bakery Cafe
  • Stonewood Properties
  • Revival

Street Sponsors

  • Valerie's Taqueria
  • Moe Bodyworks
  • Nighthawks
  • YMCA
  • The Lowbrow
  • Cocina Latina
  • Ramen Kazama
  • Quality Coaches
  • Curran's
  • Twisted Hare
  • House Lift
  • Hola Arepa
  • Cinco de Mayo Mercado